Instinct Quotes - Page 10

• Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

  Claude Monet

  Inspiration, Listening, Superb

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• The people's instincts are still right. You see them come to the rescue of someone-a child who falls down a well-hundreds of people rush to help, and labor and equipment are volunteered without any thought of who's going to pay for it. This is a basic feeling in Americans. They don't stand back in such a circumstance and ask what the government's going to do about it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Fall, Government

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• Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Player, Tactics, Chess

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• I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Thinking, Brain

  "Why right-brainers will rule this century". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2009.

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• Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body.

  Deepak Chopra

  Balance, Body, Hunger

  Deepak Chopra (2001). “Perfect health: the complete mind body guide”, Harmony

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• If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce.

  Seth Godin

  Emotional, Ideas, People

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• Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

  Virginia Woolf

  Passion, Yield, Civilization

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909”, Vintage

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• Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It’s an animalistic instinct for survival.

  Elie Tahari

  Creativity, Survival, Force

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• Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold.

  Harville Hendrix

  Gold, Soup, Raw Emotion

  Harville Hendrix (1993). “Keeping the Love You Find”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

  Stanley Walker

  Running, Manners, Well Mannered

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• The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.

  Garry Kasparov

  Worst Enemy, Play, Clouds

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• As I look back I know that most of the mistakes I have made have come when I didn't listen to myself, when I didn't trust my instincts... I believe you need to listen, carefully, to hear your inner voice. And then, you have to do what it says.

  Christine Todd Whitman

  Mistake, Believe, Voice

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• Take one more deep breath, savor it, and plunge forward without thinking. Do not allow yourself hesitation. Do not allow yourself a moment of doubt. Follow your instincts and go where you never would have considered possible.

  Corey Taylor

  Thinking, Doubt, Moments

  Corey Taylor (2014). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven: (or, How I Made Peace with the Paranormal and Stigmatized Zealots and Cynics)”, p.21, Da Capo Press

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• The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form- an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

  Carl Jung

  Shoes, Decision, Recipes

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.62, Psychology Press

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• By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them

  Kevin Rudd

  Humor, Australia, Way

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• Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none of their business and they will not lose too much sleep over it. The shrug of the shoulders has become - only temporarily, I daresay - the national gesture of Australia.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humor, Sleep

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• I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.

  Bob Dylan

  Believe, Genius, I Believe

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• In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.

  Jonathan Cainer

  Absence, Certainty

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• Listen to your instincts, then do the opposite.

  Robert W. Bly

  Opposites

  Robert W. Bly (2003). “Fool-Proof Marketing: 15 Winning Methods for Selling Any Product or Service in Any Economy”, p.98, John Wiley & Sons

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• Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Facts, Judgment

  Tony Blair's Labour Speech to the Conference in Brighton, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2004.

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• The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.

  John Updike

  Trying, Medusa, Steps

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• You must have the courage to trust your instincts and be ready to question what other people don't. If you do that, you can seize opportunities that others would miss. Believe in yourself, and use everything you can - including the obstacles - to propel you along the road to success. Who knows what you might achieve?

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Opportunity, People

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• There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.

  Bliss Carman

  Being Yourself, Eye, Desire

  Bliss Carman (1904). “The Friendship of Art”, Boston : L.C. Page

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• Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty.
  People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it.
  Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct.

  Seth Godin

  Giving Up, Opportunity, Hands

  "Living with doubt". sethgodin.typepad.com. December 5, 2010.

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• By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.

  Bernie Siegel

  Intuition, Favors, Limits

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