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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
I am a superior form of human and I have absolutely no quirks or irrational impulses of any kind.
I love the idea of the amateur - that's what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet's doing is professionalizing everyone's amateuristic impulses.
I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.
Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility
Long Division has a lot of Afrosurrealist impulses. I think the book was more Afrofuturist when it was like 700 pages.
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
Go away, dig a hole, do something else, come back and it magically rejuvenates your creative impulses and stuff.
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.
'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.
I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.
We live in this miraculous technological environment, and yet our human behaviour is still governed by basic impulses from prehistoric times.
I think religious individualism doesn't fulfill impulses toward community and solidarity and it doesn't necessarily work for people when things go really bad.
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.
Actually, it would be assumed that the young lady had no such impulses at all, but I’ll tell you something: Chocolate melts on my tongue too.
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 thats definitely changed.
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.
New York has really thrived both upstate and downstate when there are tens of thousands of small businesses all representing their different creative impulses.
Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.
Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places.
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?
Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.
Restricting the religious impulses of Americans is precisely like killing free enterprise with too many regulations.
If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.
I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.
The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.
The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.
Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds of pressures.
A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.
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.
I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.
Like most genres of literary expression, science fiction in China was subject to instrumentalist impulses and had to serve practical goals.
Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.
Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second.
I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.
To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.
Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
Don't give up. It's really important to trust your impulses as an artist no matter what anybody else says.
I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.
It's all about a war of social impulses and beliefs that is as powerful in its way as a big hurricane.
The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .
by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.
