Pastoral Resources

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

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

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

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

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.

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

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

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

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

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.