Sentence examples for impulse to collect from inspiring English sources

"Only Rhyme" began with Paul's impulse to collect, but it ends up meaning "Only connect".

They are, the scientists believe, the first evidence of the human impulse to collect.

I can understand the impulse to collect and organize images of Iggy's body, to position it as an instructive artifact.

The impulse to collect and store all data on the off chance it might be useful is counterproductive.

King believes that the impulse to collect comes "partly from a wound we feel deep inside this richest, most materialistic of all societies".

In East Islip, at the Islip Art Museum Accumulationss," a show that examines the way repetition, obsession and the impulse to collect can spur the creative process, will be on view Sept. 25 through Nov. 17.

My mom has a lot of empathy for my impulses to collect things and hold onto them.

The studio and salon both evolved, Rhodes-Pitts explains, out of Gumby's singular passion for scrapbooking — his "impulse to compile, collect and curate the detritus of his reality".

The anatomical connections do not change, but the power of the bipolar cells and ganglion cells to collect impulses is increased, perhaps by the removal of an inhibition that prevents this during high illumination of the retina.

Furthermore, there frequently appears evidence of Leonardo's impulse to teach: he wanted to collect his writings on this theme in a theory of architecture.

Whenever I have lost someone, my first impulse has been to try to collect all my memories of that person and write them down.