Quotes About Impulse Control

#1. Excuse me, your attention please."
He waited until the whole floor had stopped what it was doing and turned to face him. For a split second his impulse control kicked in, but by then his mouth was fully engaged.
"For the record, Claire Marsden and I are not having sex.

Sarah Mayberry

#2. Impulse control problems don't usually come with a body count.

Mira Grant

#3. I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

David Eagleman

#4. I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.

Anna Quindlen

#5. Trust me, my parents have about as much impulse control as I do. If they didn't like you, you'd know. Hell, you'd have been sitting in the car until I finished eating.

Billy London

#6. The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations,' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.

Helen Simonson

#7. There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

Marya Hornbacher

#8. To say I had some pent-up anger would be like saying Britney Spears had minor impulse-control issues.

Molly Harper

#9. It sounded like a good idea at the time, which is probably going to be on my tombstone - along with a catty footnote about poor impulse control. But

Cherie Priest

#10. Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions.

Bryan Stevenson

#11. Mike suppressed an urge to shove Dylan. Unfortunately, Dylan had the impulse control of Bill Clinton in a room full of interns and couldn't hold back his nudge.

Julia Kent

#12. Tease me like that again, and I'll put you over my knee," Cain threatens, and my poor impulse control kicks into overdrive.
"I'm not teasing.

Lilly Black

#13. We can only speculate why, but physically abusive parents seem to share certain characteristics. First, they have an appalling lack of impulse control.

Susan Forward

#14. I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don't remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at him when I woke up. The end, love Clary.

Cassandra Clare

#15. Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills, including attention, focus, stress management, impulse control, and self-awareness.

Kelly McGonigal

#16. I'm really not good with impulse control.

Richelle Mead

#17. The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

Stephen R. Covey

#18. Our impulse as people is to try to control; as an actor, you have to give up that control.

Andrew J. West

#19. I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

Elise Valmorbida

#20. The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educated - of methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.

Havelock Ellis

#21. I know whom we must fight ... it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling.

Philip Pullman

#22. It is not enough to recognize what is right and true. One must control the impulse to do what is wrong and easy.

Andy Andrews

#23. The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse to control, to command, to force, to oppress, and to begin quite humbly to follow the guidance of the larger community on which all life depends.

Thomas Berry

#24. One thing I'm recognizing more and more in myself - and looking to change - is going down more of a self-destructive path when I feel pain. I'm trying to avoid that as much as possible. That is an impulse, when I feel out of control.

Tyler Blackburn

#25. Seven key abilities human beings need to effectively manage life: the ability to motivate ourselves, to persist against frustration, to delay gratification, to regulate moods, to hope, to empathize, and to control impulse. Many

Gavin De Becker

#26. In fact, an Islamic revival - already abetted from the outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia - is likely to become the mobilizing impulse for the increasingly pervasive new nationalisms, determined to oppose any reintegration under Russian - and hence infidel - control.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#27. There was no thought in her now, no control. Every sound, every movement - it was pure impulse. Instinct and desire. Truth.

Kit Rocha

#28. It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.

Seneca The Younger

#29. Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite;
keep reason under its own control.

Marcus Aurelius

#30. It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some say society should be more open. That doesn't work either.

Woody Allen