Impulsivity Quotes

I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

I never trust a fighting man who doesn’t smoke or drink.

I was obsessive-compulsive, and I probably had a little splash of Asperger's in there, but in those days, in 1953, you were just a difficult kid. Attention deficit didn't even exist back then. I really had trouble completing tasks - I couldn't sit still.

Too many guys are over here begging for people and trying to chase people to fight, this and that, begging for money fights. You become your own damn money fight.

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

I can't sit still for 10 minutes.

When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

When one is young, one can become distracted and overconfident.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

I'm deeply impatient. If I can't park directly in front of somewhere, I go home.

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.

I reached the point where I was getting arrested all the time in London. I couldn't walk down the street. London becomes a very small village, eventually. You run out of places. It was inescapable.

I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.

Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.

Growing up in Vancouver in the 1950s, I was often capricious and temperamental, quick to laugh, even quicker to feel despair, prone to flailing my arms, pouting and crying when things didn't go my way, or I thought something was unfair, or I was bullied by my sisters.

Do not change horses in mid stream unless horse lies to you and the stream is on fire.

I'm hyper, goofy. I always have to be moving, doing something.

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.

This man will never finish anything. He thinks about the end before he thinks about the beginning.