Impulses Quotes

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

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.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

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

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.