Impulsiveness Quotes

“Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.”
― E. Lockhart, The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

“Before you make a decision, ask yourself this question: will you regret the results or rejoice in them?”
― Rob Liano

“Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.”
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

“It would be a sin to help you destroy yourself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Not every affection which seems good is to be immediately followed. Neither is every opposite affection to be immediately avoided. Sometimes it is expedient to use restraint even in good desires and wishes, lest through importunity you fall into distraction of mind, lest through want of discipline you become a stumbling block to others.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

“Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are free from the grasp, not of one mad master only, but of many.”
― Plato, The Republic

“Doctors described Jonah as having poor impulse control, which basically meant that Jonah's entire world was a series of decisions that balanced precariously on the razor's edge of clever vs. stupid.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, The Doubt Factory

“Despite almost daily reports of chaos and discord in the White House, the public did not know how bad the internal situation actually was. Trump was always shifting, rarely fixed, erratic. He would get in a bad mood, something large or small would infuriate him, and he would say about the KORUS trade agreement, “We’re withdrawing today.”
― Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

“She's American. She shows her emotions, doesn't hide them and tell you what you want to hear. She behaves genuinely and impulsively. That is part of her appeal.”
― Annie Ward, The Making of June

“He would run through a brick wall for you, Mr. Stark.
I know, but sometimes I wish he would just walk around it.”
― Keith Wright

“For it is a sad rule that whenever you are most in need of your art as a rationalist, that is when you are most likely to forget it.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a cabalistic society. A love-hate relationship defines our personal history with society, where the suppression of individuality for the sake of the collective good battles the notion that the purpose of society is to enable each person to flourish. A conspicuous feature of cultural development involves societies teaching children the sublimation of unacceptable impulses or idealizations, consciously to transform their inappropriate instinctual impulses into socially acceptable actions or behavior. The paradox rest in the concept that in order for any person to flourish they must preserve the spiritual texture of themselves, a process that requires the individual to resist societal restraint, push off against the community, and reject the walls of traditionalism that seek to pen us in. The climatic defining event in a person’s life represents the liberation of the self from crippling conformism, staunchly rebuffing capitulating to the whimsy of the super ego of society.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The moon: in that luminous face one can behold those tired phases that bring only disappointment and no satisfaction; the impulses governing its expression remain patternistic, its cycles of transition easily predictable. With moderated temperament it commands the capricious sea: its diametric opponent, in whose helpless defiance, arises an empty, albeit elegant promise, an ever-changing flicker of reflected light, a simultaneous opening and closing of paths to be traversed, a vacillating hope and disillusionment in whose unsettling direction emerges something one might wish to call, even under the hardened visage of sky, a marginal sense of freedom. To walk upon the decks of ramshackle vessels rising and descending in patterns indeterminate, to lean in ecstasy over their shaky rails to witness the splendor of that which transforms immediately upon being witnessed and which transforms thereby the witness in question: it was these flights of reverie that appealed better to one’s imagination than the lean pragmatism of predictable transition.”
― Ashim Shanker, Inward and Toward

“There are strings in the human heart that had best not be vibrated.”
― Charles Dickens

“Why do humans put so much thought into some decisions yet plunge into others like penguins into frozen ocean? I certainly have a fear of falling into the routines of my elders, their eggshell worlds of dangers and do nots.”
― Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

“Free the self from impulsive actions and watch yourself become truly free.”
― Jay Kumar Singh

“Don’t confuse selfishness and stupidity with malice. People seldom consider the consequences of their impulsive actions.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Sometimes people do foolish and dangerous things for nearly no reason at all, other than the opportunity presents itself, and no small voice in their heads tells them not to do it.”
― James Irwin, Nina's Friends

“The ideal pecuniary [financial] man is like the ideal delinquent in his unscrupulous conversion of goods and persons to his own ends, and in a callous disregard of the feelings and wishes of others and of the remoter effects of his actions; but he is unlike him in possessing a keener sense of status, and in working more consistently and far-sightedly to a remoter end.”
― Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption