Innate Quotes - Page 8

• The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.

  Sam Keen

  Self Esteem, Animal, Men

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• If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.

  Augusta Jane Evans

  Men, Self, Stronger

  Augusta Jane Evans (1860). “Beulah”, p.272

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• I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then the innate principle of self-preservation, wisely implanted in our natures, for obvious purposes, opposes that wish, and makes us endeavour to spin out our thread as long as we can, however decayed and rotten it may be.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Death, Self, Long

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• All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

  Harvey Cox

  Needs, Stories, Storytelling

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• Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Leadership, Responsibility, Equality

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• have you ever noticed how a man orders food at a fast-food drive-through window? ... men have an innate desire to be cute while placing their order through the drive-through microphone. It's as if they believe the invisible mike on the plastic menu screen is actually connected to a standup comedy stage somewhere in the recesses of the restaurant.

  Becky Freeman

  Cute, Believe, Men

  Becky Freeman, Becky Freeman Johnson (1996). “Marriage 911”, B & H Publishing Group

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• Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.

  Emily Post

  Attitude, Character, Personality

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, Believe, Trying

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.323, Hoover Press

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• God who is goodness and truth is also beauty. It is this innate human and divine longing, found in the company of goodness and truth, that is able to recognize and leap up at beauty and rejoice and know that all is beautiful, that there is not one speck of beauty under the sun that does not mirror back the beauty of God.

  Roberta Bondi

  Beautiful, God, Mirrors

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• Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy is a major contribution to art therapy literature and practice. Laury Rappaport introduces a contemplative method and philosophy grounded in the body's felt-sense of experience and its innate and largely unrecognized wisdom. This intellectually provocative, yet thoroughly practical text, establishes Rappaport as an emergent leader in the art therapy world and author of a book that every student and art therapist must read in order to appreciate the depth and breadth of our discipline.

  Shaun McNiff

  Art, Philosophy, Book

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• The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it.

  Will Smith

  Father, Men, Emotional

  "Will Smith The Pursuit of Happyness Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I've been writing songs and making music since I was probably ten years old...so my inspirations back then, I don't know - I guess it was something that was innate. I was really shaped to make hip-hop music and love hip hop.

  Hoodie Allen

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

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• You had to work tremendously hard. You had to have that commitment to training, you had to have that innate ability. It's similar in my profession as well. You can have the ability, but without the work, passion and the commitment, you won't really get there.

  Paul Rankin

  Passion, Commitment, Training

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The joy he brings to the millions of his countrymen, the grace with which he handles all the adulation and the expectations and his innate humility - all make for a one-in-a-billion individual.

  Glenn McGrath

  Humility, Expectations, Joy

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• Wholeness or health is our natural state. The nature of healing involves removing obstructions to this natural state and bringing individuals into alignment with themselves and their world. Free of these obstructions, an individual's innate intelligence and self-regulating capabilties will guide him toward a state of well being.

  Richard Carlson

  Healing, Self, World

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• The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

  Christopher Morley

  Children, Years, Childhood

  Christopher Morley (2007). “Chimneysmoke”, Wildside Press LLC

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• Sensitivity to nature is not an innate attribute of indigenous peoples. It is a consequence of adaptive choices that have resulted in the development of highly specialized peripheral skills. but those choices in turn spring from a comprehensive view of nature and the universe in which man and woman are perceived as but elements inextricably linked to the whole.

  Wade Davis

  Spring, Men, Skills

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• There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

  Christopher Morley

  Truth, Men, People

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed].

  Rhys Ifans

  Reading, Wife, Secret

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I never ever would have thought initially it would have been someone like Pierce playing Charles. I think he has an innate likeability to him, as soon as you meet him he's very, very charismatic. Charles, on the page, was someone who's very domineering and quite a negative character, and Pierce just by being Pierce can change the whole dynamic of it, which made for a much for interesting relationship. He's a really nice guy.

  Robert Pattinson

  Nice, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• And the writers are good in that it's easy to memorize, and good writing has an innate rhythm to it. And I've always felt that it's easier to get in your head than writing that has very kind of mind busting moments.

  Glenn Close

  Writing, Mind, Kind

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, October 24, 2007.

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• I think God is everything. Human beings created the punitive, vengeful deity who considers us to be innate sinners.

  Alanis Morissette

  Thinking, Deities, Vengeful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Generally, that's what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea. It's just like music: If you don't have an innate love or calling for it, then no matter how much you study or how well you can play by looking at the score, it doesn't mean that you're going to make really good music.

  William Eggleston

  Mean, Play, Ideas

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• Regularity in Nature is not proof of the control of Nature by a Divine intelligence; it is rather the reverse. If something- call it matter, or ether, or x - exists, it must operate in accordance with its innate qualities; and so long as this x remains uncontrolled, its manifestations will continue unchallenged- in other words, there will be order. The same causes, the same results. That is the manifest signs of a natural order that knows nothing of God.

  Chapman Cohen

  Order, Long, Quality

  Chapman Cohen (1928). “Essays in freethinking”

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• An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Important, Ordinary, Pay

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