#impulse

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. ↗

— Daniel Bell

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To me, impulsive means foolish. But if a person’s not a little impulsive, they don’t have a pulse. 
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— Jarod Kintz

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Men are driven by two two principal impulses, either by love or by fear. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk. ↗

— Robert Benchley

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You know you love something if you're willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

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She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister. ↗

— Bill Griffith

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I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them. ↗

— Augustus Hare

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Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust. ↗

— Henry S. Haskins

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Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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