Innate Quotes - Page 12

• Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government....Man's place is in the armory.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Baseball, Women, Emotional

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• The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

  Chris Ware

  Book

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• On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Children, Block, Creativity

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• Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man's innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Perfect, Violence

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.

  Ashton Eaton

  People, Desire, Levels

  "Ashton Eaton throws off the uniform". Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Sorrow, Desire

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• Chances are that any helpful two-year-old will break some eggs. We are often not very good at things when we are new. But there may be an important choice to make at such moments. Do we support and protect the innate wish to be of help to others in our children, or do we protect the eggs? Hard as it seems, the greater mother wisdom may lie in a willingness to clean up broken eggs or replace a mitten and a box of crayons.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Mother, Children, Lying

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• I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two Nations, Law, People

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.283

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• The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

  B. F. Skinner

  Tendencies, Aggression, Clear

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• Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative functions.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Energy, Nervous, Volition

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• There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.153, Routledge

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• We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft can be learned but desire and longing are innate. Despite the demands of school and just being young, try to write SOMETHING every day --- a description, a captured emotion, a simile, a metaphor. Read, for crying out loud! A writer must read the way a ball player must go to the ballfield every day to practice. Everything is possible in this world of ours--- and so's publication.

  Robert Cormier

  Writing, School, Unique

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• I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.

  Ellen Page

  Kids, Desire, Connections

  "Ellen Page’s Greenest Day". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September 11, 2010.

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• I feel like directing is an innate talent.

  Jordana Brewster

  Talent, Innate Talents, Feels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

  Nina Blackwood

  Reading, Passion, Musical

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• Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time.

  Natalie Dormer

  Eye, Messages, Life Is

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• I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

  Lori Greiner

  Knowing, Instinct, Going To Work

  FaceBook post by Lori Greiner from Oct 01, 2013

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• I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

  Ashton Eaton

  Sports, Challenges, World

  "Ashton Eaton throws off the uniform". Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. July 11, 2012.

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• What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of man and the innate indecency of the society. Can we imagine how men would behave if this decency could find full release, if society earned the respect, even the love of the individual?

  Murray Bookchin

  Struggle, Reality, Men

  Janet Biehl, Murray Bookchin (1999). “The Murray Bookchin Reader”, p.115, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• The human mind generates an auric field that covers up naturalness, innate divinity of life. That auric field is a field of doubt.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Doubt

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• When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Children, Buddhism

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• You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Meditation

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• Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

  Barry Mann

  Successful, Songwriting, Ability

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Technology, Men, Computer

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.83, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.

  Charles de Lint

  Art, Children, Desire

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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