#impulses

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

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Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives. ↗

— William Moulton Marston

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If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

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One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. ↗

— Henry Miller

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Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. ↗

— Egon Schiele

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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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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not. ↗

— Jim Elliot

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