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I don't pursue anything. The only thing I always answer is my own impulse. – Duke Ellington	added by JokerGem 1 year ago
Please resist the impulse to respond to the very loud noise in your left ear. I’m happy to be the loud noise in your right ear, when it comes to being one of the cool crowd, I know the pressure that you feel. I’m sorry that sometimes those of us on the conservative side aren’t as activist-oriented. But I want to help you. – Kevin Cramer	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The minute electrical impulse that a prey's brain sends to its heart to tell it to beat is detectable to sharks, so they can find hidden prey quite effectively. – Catherine Macdonald	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When we gave the figure of 50 years, we were not speaking casually or on impulse, but in consideration of the realities in China and of our need for development. – Margaret Thatcher	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Once that stockpiling impulse ended, then global commodity demand started to reconnect with global growth. – Daniel Ghali	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Like everyone else, I’m hugely impressed by how far he’s come as an actor, this was a rap artist from Philly who's now a mammoth star. But he’s always had a tremendous amount of personal magneticsm. Somebody once said on set that he had an Elvis vibe. I’ve never met Elvis, but he certainly has this very attractive quality. He’s a guy you want to spend time with and hear what he has to say. And when you’re a superstar, there’s an impulse to share everything with us. That’s very risky. But it also demonstrates personal freedom that, I think, we all aspire to. But even then, he demonstrated pure talent, humor, skill and inventiveness. He’s pretty irresistible. – Jim Meskimen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They should’ve replaced Fauci, declared victory and said basically this whole thing of America, the show that we do, the American show must go on. Had [Biden] gone that route, more people would have probably gotten vaccinated as well, the question remains, will Biden given to this truly demonic impulse to restrict the movement of the unvaccinated through the United States? – Margaret Brennan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I have people asking me if I am considering changing my name, and I'm like,' no,' i never had the impulse to change it. It just felt dishonest to me. My parents didn't work and sacrifice so much to bring all of us here for me to deny the most important thing they gave to me, my name. – Abubakr Ali	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It typically takes a positive delta (difference) to keep markets rallying -- and immediate prospects for both the credit and the Covid deltas seem overwhelmingly negative, we cannot find any occasion when all the major components of the global credit impulse turned negative and there wasn’t a major sell-off somewhere. – Matt King	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Young People often find a way to get the information Young People seek. When parents and caregivers normalize their curiosities and provide pathways for Young People to exercise their autonomy in safe ways, it often lessens their impulse for secrecy or thrill-seeking. – Pintor Carnagey	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Generally speaking, the impulse is going to be to ask why, a response that is involved there is potentially fraught, legally. – Stephen Riga	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I’ve done that numerous times in my life, where I acted on impulse and emotion, you don’t always think things through. Things might have looked cool and exciting, but in the long run, she not only hurt herself, but she hurt her family and a whole community in upstate New York. It wasn’t a happy ending. – Erik Jensen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Now we know these very different observatories operating at very different wavelengths can see the same fast, energetic impulse. – Alycia Weinberger	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This impulse decision-making, I've never seen anything like it in the presidency or any other institution where it's this one man band and he's going to say and do exactly what he wants, often giving no warning to his closest aides. – Bob Woodward	Found on CNN 3 years ago
What we're fighting against is these long-term trends in which being selfish, being tribal, being divided, and seeing others as an enemy — that has become a stronger impulse in American life. – Former President Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This election that's coming up -- on every level -- is so important because what we're going to be battling is not just a particular individual or a political party, what we're fighting against is these long-term trends in which being selfish, being tribal, being divided, and seeing others as an enemy -- that has become a stronger impulse in American life. – Former President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If you don’t want to be cantankerous, don’t feed your temper, or multiply incidents of anger. Suppress the first impulse to be angry, then begin to count the days on which you don’t get mad. – Marcus Aurelius	added by Normando 4 years ago
The Hong Kong demonstrations and their ability to shut down the airport and the surprise in Argentina took the wind out of the sails of the stock market, we're back to worrying that things are still unsettled and so there's no need to push stocks higher, and without that optimism, without that 'things-are-getting-better' impulse behind stocks, Treasury yields are moving to the lower middle of the range. – Jim Vogel	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The next thing I know is that Chris is in the middle of the bus fighting with them, on an impulse, I went over there only to find her face bleeding and three of them beating her up. The next thing I know is I'm being punched. – Melania Geymonat	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The President, I don't think, really has any idea what The President's really saying there. It's more of a promotional and marketing impulse on The President part, it leaves Republicans open to a little bit more attacks and ridicule by the Democrats that they don't have a plan. – James Capretta	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The circuits underlying pleasure and the pursuit of novel, enjoyable experiences develop much faster than the circuits that promote decision making, impulse control and rational thinking. – Adam Leventhal	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There's concern that the adolescent brain may be more vulnerable to the addictive effects of nicotine, the circuits underlying pleasure and the pursuit of novel, enjoyable experiences develop much faster than the circuits that promote decision making, impulse control and rational thinking. – Adam Leventhal	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Donations to Elizabeth Warren are not an impulse buy, they are fundamentally built on a track record of Elizabeth Warren consistently challenging power -- whether that's challenging Wall Street and big insurance or challenging systemic racism. – Adam Green	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Making something more difficult to do slows people down, and gives time to consider, this is important when you're dealing with impulse control. – Martin Lewis	Found on CNN 5 years ago

I don't pursue anything. The only thing I always answer is my own impulse.

– Duke Ellington

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

Please resist the impulse to respond to the very loud noise in your left ear. I’m happy to be the loud noise in your right ear, when it comes to being one of the cool crowd, I know the pressure that you feel. I’m sorry that sometimes those of us on the conservative side aren’t as activist-oriented. But I want to help you.

– Kevin Cramer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The minute electrical impulse that a prey's brain sends to its heart to tell it to beat is detectable to sharks, so they can find hidden prey quite effectively.

– Catherine Macdonald

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When we gave the figure of 50 years, we were not speaking casually or on impulse, but in consideration of the realities in China and of our need for development.

– Margaret Thatcher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Once that stockpiling impulse ended, then global commodity demand started to reconnect with global growth.

– Daniel Ghali

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Like everyone else, I’m hugely impressed by how far he’s come as an actor, this was a rap artist from Philly who's now a mammoth star. But he’s always had a tremendous amount of personal magneticsm. Somebody once said on set that he had an Elvis vibe. I’ve never met Elvis, but he certainly has this very attractive quality. He’s a guy you want to spend time with and hear what he has to say. And when you’re a superstar, there’s an impulse to share everything with us. That’s very risky. But it also demonstrates personal freedom that, I think, we all aspire to. But even then, he demonstrated pure talent, humor, skill and inventiveness. He’s pretty irresistible.

– Jim Meskimen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They should’ve replaced Fauci, declared victory and said basically this whole thing of America, the show that we do, the American show must go on. Had [Biden] gone that route, more people would have probably gotten vaccinated as well, the question remains, will Biden given to this truly demonic impulse to restrict the movement of the unvaccinated through the United States?

– Margaret Brennan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I have people asking me if I am considering changing my name, and I'm like,' no,' i never had the impulse to change it. It just felt dishonest to me. My parents didn't work and sacrifice so much to bring all of us here for me to deny the most important thing they gave to me, my name.

– Abubakr Ali

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It typically takes a positive delta (difference) to keep markets rallying -- and immediate prospects for both the credit and the Covid deltas seem overwhelmingly negative, we cannot find any occasion when all the major components of the global credit impulse turned negative and there wasn’t a major sell-off somewhere.

– Matt King

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Young People often find a way to get the information Young People seek. When parents and caregivers normalize their curiosities and provide pathways for Young People to exercise their autonomy in safe ways, it often lessens their impulse for secrecy or thrill-seeking.

– Pintor Carnagey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Generally speaking, the impulse is going to be to ask why, a response that is involved there is potentially fraught, legally.

– Stephen Riga

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’ve done that numerous times in my life, where I acted on impulse and emotion, you don’t always think things through. Things might have looked cool and exciting, but in the long run, she not only hurt herself, but she hurt her family and a whole community in upstate New York. It wasn’t a happy ending.

– Erik Jensen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Now we know these very different observatories operating at very different wavelengths can see the same fast, energetic impulse.

– Alycia Weinberger

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This impulse decision-making, I've never seen anything like it in the presidency or any other institution where it's this one man band and he's going to say and do exactly what he wants, often giving no warning to his closest aides.

– Bob Woodward

Found on CNN
3 years ago

What we're fighting against is these long-term trends in which being selfish, being tribal, being divided, and seeing others as an enemy — that has become a stronger impulse in American life.

– Former President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This election that's coming up -- on every level -- is so important because what we're going to be battling is not just a particular individual or a political party, what we're fighting against is these long-term trends in which being selfish, being tribal, being divided, and seeing others as an enemy -- that has become a stronger impulse in American life.

– Former President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If you don’t want to be cantankerous, don’t feed your temper, or multiply incidents of anger. Suppress the first impulse to be angry, then begin to count the days on which you don’t get mad.

– Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
4 years ago

The Hong Kong demonstrations and their ability to shut down the airport and the surprise in Argentina took the wind out of the sails of the stock market, we're back to worrying that things are still unsettled and so there's no need to push stocks higher, and without that optimism, without that 'things-are-getting-better' impulse behind stocks, Treasury yields are moving to the lower middle of the range.

– Jim Vogel

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The next thing I know is that Chris is in the middle of the bus fighting with them, on an impulse, I went over there only to find her face bleeding and three of them beating her up. The next thing I know is I'm being punched.

– Melania Geymonat

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The President, I don't think, really has any idea what The President's really saying there. It's more of a promotional and marketing impulse on The President part, it leaves Republicans open to a little bit more attacks and ridicule by the Democrats that they don't have a plan.

– James Capretta

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The circuits underlying pleasure and the pursuit of novel, enjoyable experiences develop much faster than the circuits that promote decision making, impulse control and rational thinking.

– Adam Leventhal

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There's concern that the adolescent brain may be more vulnerable to the addictive effects of nicotine, the circuits underlying pleasure and the pursuit of novel, enjoyable experiences develop much faster than the circuits that promote decision making, impulse control and rational thinking.

– Adam Leventhal

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Donations to Elizabeth Warren are not an impulse buy, they are fundamentally built on a track record of Elizabeth Warren consistently challenging power -- whether that's challenging Wall Street and big insurance or challenging systemic racism.

– Adam Green

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Making something more difficult to do slows people down, and gives time to consider, this is important when you're dealing with impulse control.

– Martin Lewis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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