Sentences with phrase «first impulse»

«That was my own first impulse, and you were right to restrain me, Mr. Speaker.

Newsarama tells the story of how Mike Wieringo's first Impulse drawing made its way back to Mark Waid.

Our first impulse to slow down would most likely be to stop doing as much and minimize stimuli by kicking back in a hammock or on a beach somewhere.

The best way to tackle a tough problem, Munger claims, isn't, as your first impulse likely suggests, to run straight for your goal.

«For many people, I think their first impulse is to have an event,» says Joan Schneider, president and creative director of Boston public relations and marketing communications firm Schneider Associates, and author of the book «The New Launch Plan: 152 Tips, Tactics, and Trends from the Most Memorable New Products.

The first impulse of many employees would be to work longer hours, make more phone calls, and generally double - down on the work that they have already been doing.

His first impulse, as per the standard advice on these occasions, was to look for his passion.

Her father had just struck oil, and her first impulse was to head straight for Neiman Marcus.

As usual, instead of recognizing the impact of their own speculation in producing the advance, the first impulse of investors was to try to justify why elevated asset and housing valuations made sense.

Instead, their first impulse was again to try to justify the elevated valuations in novel ways (recall «price - to - eyeballs»).

Parrott instructs us to replace this first impulse with the second: «I can't do everything, but I can do something!»

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As Christians, our first impulse should be to protect and defend the powerless, not the powerful.

Now, that sort of grace is not necessarily our first impulse.

It certainly wasn't my first impulse when someone stole our power drill!

I understand that's not what you're doing here... so it's interesting to me that my first impulse isn't to notice the truth behind the easy and direct path of the enemy, but instead to notice my own reaction to the presentation.

My first impulse is to say «no.»

As Christians, our first impulse should be to protect and defend the powerless, not the powerful, and yet too often, the reverse is the case.

While anyone's first impulse might be to go ahead and do it, there may be ramifications you didn't think about.

So we need to be gentle with ourselves when our first impulse is to intervene.

I know that very often your first impulse is to lash out.

Your first impulse on Day 31 might be to hop out of bed and directly on to the scale.

Wouldn't it a much nicer world if our first impulse was to smile at a crying baby rather than scowl?

«There's a sense for most women that it hurts, that their first impulse was to always want to be the one their baby sought for comfort.

I could have ridiculed her (it was my first impulse) because I was so tired of hearing him crying from her hitting or pissing him off in some way.

As a new mom, your first impulse may be to put your own health on the back burner.

As I always bite my tongue when I meet little girls, restraining myself from my first impulse, which is to tell them how darn cute / pretty / beautiful / well - dressed / well - manicured / well - coiffed they are.

Though your first impulse might be to lie in the tub to avoid a messy cleanup, you won't be comfortable there — or easily accessible to the EMTs.

Her first impulse was to push him away, then tears came to her eyes and she hugged him in.

«It is a place where brute force is the first impulse rather than the last resort, a place where verbal insults are repaid with physical injuries, where beatings are routine, while accountability is rare.»

Even when she served more than six years as one of the most popular Connecticut governors in recent history, Rell's first impulse was never to rush to the TV cameras or throw political brickbats at her...

My first impulse was to laugh.

I must admit that my first impulse was to tell this reviewer that he should have written more clearly what he thought because I can't read minds.

This result suggests that our first impulse is to cooperate, but it does not necessarily mean we are genetically hardwired to do so, Rand says.

My first impulse was to get fit again: I did that, by getting into bicycling.

Recruiting slow - twitch fibers is your body's first impulse, but once they are fatigued, the body recruits fast - twitch fibers.

So often when a challenge arises, our first impulse is to do.

I layered it over the baseball tee for something different because my first impulse was one of my striped tops or plain black like I did previously.

«For decades psychologists have assumed that the first impulse is selfish and that it takes self - control to behave in a pro-social manner,» said lead researcher Francesca Righetti.

Find women for fetish than first you choose the right type of online dating website — Your first impulse may be to select a no cost online dating website.

Out of the blue, she receives some bad news from back home, and Lelio shows that her first impulse is to try to anesthetise the pain with drink and casual sex.

Should they chase her, moreover, her first impulse is to duck.

Time finally runs out with some folks holed up in a random liquor store, and your first impulse is to question why the movie would leave its final countdown to an analog clock on the wall — but then you realize that you have no idea who these people are, how they got there, who died in the interim, or whether this is a liquor store at all.