#impulse

...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn't realize then that it's the same impulse. It's make-believe. It's performance. ↗

— Joan Didion

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As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

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I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight. ↗

— David Eagleman

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses. ↗

— Danny Elfman

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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. ↗

— George Eliot

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If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster. ↗

— Rupert Everett

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Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. ↗

— Jane Campion

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