Innate Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners. Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Hatred, Feelings

  "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1951.

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• Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

  Wole Soyinka

  Adventure, Pride, Giving

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Jul 22, 2016

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• The very definition of the innate hollowness of leading a political life when you end up on your nearest and dearest moments or most personal evenings with donors. That should - that should tell you all you need to know about the ramble that is politics.

  Dennis Miller

  Political, Needs, Definitions

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A lot of drive is innate, self-perpetuated, reinforced energy. As a kid, I could always sell anything I could get my hands on - from newspapers to lemonade to TV Guide. I knew how to make a presentation.

  Michael Ovitz

  Kids, Self, Hands

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• Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Philosophical, Giving, Use

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• Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or into a canoe and heading for the hills or lakes. In my opinion, camping can be the greatest expression of free will, personal independence, innate ability, and resourcefulness possible today in our industrialized, urbanized existence. Regardless of how miserable or how splendid the circumstances, the sheer experience of camping seems a total justification for doing it.

  Anne LaBastille

  Lakes, Expression, Independence

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• Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave: the full realization of their innate gifts, and to have these gifts approved, acknowledged, and confirmed. There are countless people in the West whose efforts are sadly wasted because they have no means of expressing their unique genius. In the psyches of such people there is an inner power and authority that fails to shine because the world around them is blind to it.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Mean, Unique, Psych

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1999). “The healing wisdom of Africa: finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community”, J P Tarcher

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• I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that Jesus was a great moral teacher, perhaps the greatest the world has witnessed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Teacher, Jesus, Believe

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When you understand the fear then you can begin to move past it. So when I hear the people say it's innate, you can't learn it, I just want to hit them in the head.

  Robert Greene

  Moving, Past, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If you have laser-like brain it's not always focused on the most productive things. If you want to play Halo: Reach all day, that's fine, but if you want to accomplish some other things, here are some ways to do that using your innate nerd gifts.

  Chris Hardwick

  Play, Nerd, Brain

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.

  William James

  Animal, Sight, Society

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.293, Courier Corporation

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• UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a 'language acquisition device,' an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Yield, Mind

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• From the beginning moments of life, the urges for each of us to become a self in the world are there--in the liveliness of our innate growth energies, in the vitality of our stiffening-away muscles, in our looking eyes, our listening ears, our reaching-out hands.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Children, Eye, Listening Ear

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• It is a human circumstance that when we are born we have not yet come into existence. We are lured into our special human existence by a mothering presence that gratifies our innate urges to be suckled, held, rocked, caressed. But that same gratifying presence puts limits on desire and rations satisfaction. In this sense the mother is also the first lawgiver.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Special, Desire

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.

  Nina Conti

  Dad, Thinking, People

  "Comedians and their parents: Nina Conti and father Tom". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2013.

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• Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Jobs, Memories, Past

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.198

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• I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, Confidence, Skills

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