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Managing Impulsivity

Acting with forethought and deliberation. Take your time!

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Benjamin Franklin
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Dorothy Nevill
The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.
Harry A. Overstreet
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
Speak when you're angry – and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence Peter
The secret of getting ahead is getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Mark Twain
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile.
Mary Beard
Think twice before you speak - and you'll find everyone talking about something else.
Francis Rodman
No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
Olive Schriner
Its better to sleep on things beforehand than to lie awake about them afterward.
Balthasar Graciare
....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley cup.
Daniel Goleman
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson
Look twice before you leap.
Charlotte Bronte
I can give you a six word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
Eddie Rickenbacker
The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes
Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
Vincent van Gogh
One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.
Helen Merrell Lynd
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Winston Churchill
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
Victor Hugo
Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
William James
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
Ralph W. Sockman
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
Robert F. Bennett, U.S. Senator
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb
Before you start up a ladder, count the rungs.
Yiddish proverb
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