#pulse

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else. ↗

— George P. Baker

#else #felt #human #human being #immature

I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#company #going #good #i #i think

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

#girl #i #impulse #little #little girl

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

#around #ball #ball game #becomes #composer

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

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#because #critics #end #fiction #i

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong. ↗

— Lara St. John

#brings #concert #crowd #goes #impulse

You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#audience #finger #got #keep #know

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#any #been #black #black music #closer

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#beat #behind #bettered #cheerfully #every