Instinct Quotes - Page 14

• Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

  Bill Bryson

  Travel, Nice, Europe

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.110, VNR AG

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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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• It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

  Amy Sillman

  Painting, Trouble

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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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• 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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• 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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• Love is the sole impulse for creation; and the man who does not have it as the greatest incentive in his life has never developed the real creative instinct. No one can swing out into the Universal without love, for the whole universe is based upon it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Real, Love Is, Men

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “Creative Mind”, p.27, Penguin

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• There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Two, Trying

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• When I was just starting out, I met Cartier-Bresson. He wasn't young in age but, in his mind, he was the youngest person I'd ever met. He told me it was necessary to trust my instincts, be inside my work, and set aside my ego. In the end, my photography turned out very different to his, but I believe we were coming from the same place.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Believe, Ego

  "Portrait of the artist: Sebastião Salgado, photographer". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.

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• Why should a manufacturer bet his money, perhaps the future of his company, on your instinct?

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Advertising, Should

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• He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

  James Reston, Jr.

  Hard Work, Quaker, Diligent

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• Before you look to blame another, look within yourself, for at some point you have not listened to your own instincts.

  Leon Brown

  Looks, Blame

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• Neither instinct nor style ..can be bought or taught.

  Robert Evans

  Style, Taught

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• The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

  Seth Godin

  Notebook, Fancy, Great Work

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• Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.

  Arnold Newman

  Reflection, Two, Shooting

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• When you're living by instinct, then you will naturally enhance everything and everyone around you. In other words, success will come naturally! When both your intellect and instincts are aligned, then producing the fruits of your labors brings satisfaction beyond measure.

  T. D. Jakes

  Satisfaction, Fruit, Intellect

  T. D. Jakes (2014). “Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• Management is like making love. There's heat from both sides. You have an instinct to get there. You have no idea what you're really in for, but you do it anyway.

  Bernie Brillstein

  Ideas, Making Love, Sides

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• Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.

  Drew Barrymore

  Marriage, People, Lessons

  "Drew Barrymore: The Latest Drew Stories". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. April 1, 2003.

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• Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Alertness Is, Perception

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• Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

  William Wordsworth

  Music, Sparks, Gems

  William Wordsworth (1852). “Complete Poetical Works”, p.137

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• His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

  Bela Bartok

  Music, Echoes, Years

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• I stepped onto the spiritual path moved by an inner sense that I might find greatness of heart, that I might find profound belonging, that I might find a hidden source of love and compassion. Like a homing instinct for freedom, my intuitive sense that this was possible was the faint, flickering, yet undeniable expression of faith.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Spiritual, Heart, Greatness

  Sharon Salzberg (2003). “Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience”, p.18, Penguin

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• I don’t follow fashion and I don’t follow trends, I just follow my instincts...

  Victoria Beckham

  Fashion, Trends

  "Victoria Beckham For i-D: Designer Dishes Out Clothing Advice" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

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