#impulse

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. ↗

— Peter Cooper

#acts #boast #events #far #history

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#funny #going #impulse #little #ruin

Impulses are hard to come by these days. ↗

— Jack Levine

#days #hard #impulses #these

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#because #become #continue #creative #creativity

I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses. ↗

— Donna Murphy

#i #impulses #instinct #like #rely

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#cannot #controlling #else #evident #exercising

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#days #humanitarian #impulse #very #well

Do not only think about it, but feel about it, also, before taking appropriate action. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#consciousness #emotions #feel #impulse #planning

It is a fact that if an impulse from one or the other sphere comes up and is not lived out, then it goes back down and tends to develop anti-human qualities. What should have been a human impulse becomes a tiger-like impulse. For instance, a man has a feeling impulse to say something positive to someone and he blocks it off through some inhibition. He might then dream that he had a spontaneous feeling impulse on the level of a child and his conscious purpose had smashed it. The human is still there, but as a hurt child. Should he do that habitually for five years, he would no longer dream of a child who had been hurt but of a zoo full of raging wild animals in a cage. An impulse which is driven back loads up with energy and becomes inhuman. This fact, according to Dr. Jung, demonstrates the independent existence of unconscious. ↗

— Marie-Louise von Franz

#impulse #jung #unconscious-depth-psychology #dreams

The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#poetry #experience