All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Impulses are hard to come by these days.
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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