“The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.” SelfWholeIndividualLosesForgetSacrificeSocietyProduceLosingImpulseMaskCollectivesWillingnessForget ItReadinessUnwantedCompactRevulsionSlough Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.” OrderProduceEvolutionSurvivalImpulseArrangementsOrderlyPrerequisitesInbreds Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
“The experience of a sense of guilt for wrong-doing is necessary for the development of self-control. The guilt feelings will laterserve as a warning signal which the child can produce himself when an impulse to repeat the naughty act comes over him. When the child can produce his on warning signals, independent of the actual presence of the adult, he is on the way to developing a conscience.” WayChildrenSelfFeelingsProduceDevelopmentConscienceAdultsIndependentGuiltDevelopingImpulseRepeatsWarningSelf ControlSignalsNaughtyGuilt Feelings Author:Selma Fraiberg
“Thought reflexes get conditioned very strongly, and they are very hard to change. And the also interfere. A reflex may connect to the endorphins and produce an impulse to hold that whole pattern forther. In other words, it produces a defensive reflex. Not merely is it stuck because it's chemically so well built up, but also there is a defensive reflex which defends against evidence which might weaken it. Thus it all happens, one reflex after another after another. It's just a vast system of reflexes. And they form a 'structure' as they get more rigid.” WellsMayHardWholeMightHappensFormProduceEvidenceBuiltStructurePatternsStuckImpulseVery StrongInterfereReflexesEndorphins Author:David Bohm
“I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly because serious art takes so much time and energy and talent to produce-in favor of what I call `impulse art': art work that is quick and easy, at least by comparison.” BelieveArtArtistEnergyI BelieveEasyModernTalentProduceSeriousFavorsImpulseJust OneComparisonPhenomenonRejectingSmall PartsTime And Energy Author:Marilyn vos Savant