#impulses

Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#director #down #feel #friends #hasn

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard. ↗

— Edward Norton

#because #characters #contradictory #easily #fun

The Moral Law isn't any one instinct or any set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts. (...) The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There's not one of them which won't make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it isn't. If you leave out justice you'll find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials 'for the sake of humanity,' and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#instincts #moral-law #love

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#become #did #enough #financial #fleetwood

The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#bad #base #creatures #drawn #fascinating

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#been #discovered #emotional #foster #impulses

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#constantly #creativity #direction #evolutionary #higher

Impulses are hard to come by these days. ↗

— Jack Levine

#days #hard #impulses #these

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#catholic #catholic church #church #civilizing #deepest

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed. ↗

— Judy Chicago

#definitely #disguise #done #early #early work