Impulses Quotes

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it. - Edna St Vincent Millay

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

Ultimately, it doesn't matter to the world whether you paint or dance or write. The world will probably get by without the product of your efforts. But that is not the point. The point is what the inner process of following your creative impulses will do to you. It is clearly about process. Love the work, love the process. Our fascination will pull our attention forward. That, also, will fascinate the viewer. - Ian Roberts

To deny our own impulses, is to deny the very thing that makes us human. - Matt Doran

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals. - Franz Schubert

There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stopping for even a fraction of a second to think, and then you spend the rest of your life either lamenting it or thanking yourself for it. They are rare, unique, and perfect moments. - Irene Gonzalez Frei

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

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy. - Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

The sodium channel opening at the beginning of a nerve impulse is like releasing a compressed spring. Without other influences, there is a tendency to keep reverberating, leading to additional, unwanted nerve impulses. - Edward Cooper