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  • When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

  • Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

    Country   Sin   Said  
    Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”
  • Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that it is an art at all.

    Art   Thinking   People  
  • Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and impulsive, starkly sexual and monstrously self-absorbed creatures--are, in fact, avid seekers of moral authenticity. They wish above all to achieve some realistic power over the real world in which they live while at the same time remaining true to their values and ideals.

    Teacher   Real   Avid  
  • Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession required an infinite capacity for cautious, contemplative thought.

  • We have this saying, and it's been very useful when a series, 'The Mindy Project' goes for longer than a hundred episodes, which is Mindy character can never get what she wants when she wants it. We enjoyed it because it felt very real to her character to make a big impulsive move and it seems like she has everything, this instant family, a guy she loves and then there's a moment of panic.

    Real   Moving   Character  
    Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
  • A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.

  • We are better able to bring the same sort of pragmatic planning and analytical pre-work to our values scripts that we would bring to any other business position that we espouse. This approach enables us to be more reasonable, more respectful, less impulsive and more constructive. Risk cannot be eliminated entirely but that is true in all of life.

  • Adam Schiff, who is of course the ranking member on the House Select Committee said earlier today I`d be worried about an impulsive president with an impulsive national security adviser.

    House   President   Today  
    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • I think I'm slightly impulsive, sometimes organised and always in search of a bargain!

  • Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

    Love   Wise   Running  
    1595 Friar Laurence to Romeo. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.94.
  • The narrators get into trouble and make fools of themselves with their perversely impulsive fondlings of the language. These people have retreated from the world, in which they keep falling short, and into language, where they fall even shorter. The narrators aggrandize their every plaint and lurid insight into verbal formations that betray their fatuity as speakers and even as hosts of their own bodies and souls.

    Fall   People   Soul  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.

  • One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

    Time   Children   Age  
    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 51, 1799.
  • Maybe but... if being impulsive means ruining other people's lives, then maybe I should just stay the same.

    Mean   People   Should  
    Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.138, Penguin
  • It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.

  • I think you have to sort of accept that nobody really knows where it`s going so there has to be a lot of impulsive kind of attitudes. So it`s like a train that`s moving and you don`t quite know where it`s going but you try to steer it in the best way you can realizing that it may go in different places that you had no idea.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • there is no doubt that the garrulous bore is the most maddening creature to be shut up with for any length of time, on the wide earth. ... As a matter of fact, I have sometimes wondered if these impulsive, perfectly meaningless murders of which one has read at times, can have come about through one party babbling on endlessly - just once too often - when the other longed to be left in peace.

    Party   Doubt   Earth  
  • My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.

  • Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

    Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
  • On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.

  • More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior.

  • We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.

  • If you spend your whole life being careful not to break anything, you'll get terribly bored, you know...I can't think of anything more fun than being impulsive!

    Fun   Thinking   Bored  
  • But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even a taste for it, are tormented by the fear that somehow or other they will one day find themselves drunk, so Isabelle perpetually feared that she might be betrayed into an impulsive act that was destructive to such order as reason had imposed on life. Therefore she was forever running her faculty of analysis over in her mind with the preposterous zeal of an adolescent running a razor over his beardless chin.

    Rebecca West (2010). “The Thinking Reed”, p.8, Open Road Media
  • Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.

  • Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

  • Donald Trump runs the country like he ran "The Apprentice." The premise of "The Apprentice" is a crazy rich guy has his daughter and his son oversee celebrities doing tasks. And then they come back to him, and they tell him how they did. So in every episode he's like, how did - how'd Meatloaf do, Ivanka? And then she says, Meatloaf really did a great presentation. And then he makes some impulsive decision about who to fire based on not being there, not really even understanding anything.

    Source: www.npr.org
  • There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.

    Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.551, Simon and Schuster
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