Instinct Quotes - Page 15

• Whenever we need to make a very important decision it is best to trust our instincts, because reason usually tries to remove us from our dream, saying that the time is not yet right. Reason is afraid of defeat, but intuition enjoys life and its challenges.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Enjoy Life, Decision

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 28, 2010

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• Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

  T. D. Jakes

  Mother, Bird, Nests

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• The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reading, Giving, Advice

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2597, Delphi Classics

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• From when I was really young one of the first things I did was to perform and do shows. It was like a natural instinct.

  Colin Morgan

  Natural Instinct, Firsts, Young

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• I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.

  M. F. Husain

  Expression, Giving, Soul

  "What price freedom of expression now?" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

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• If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Thinking, Needs, Middle

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• The more knowledge you have, the more you're free to rely on your instincts.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Rely, More Knowledge

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Total Recall (Enhanced Edition): My Unbelievably True Life Story”, p.607, Simon and Schuster

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• I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I want to be. Motherhood has taught me mindfulness. If you just parent on instinct, you'll screw your kid up for life. You have to be so mindful.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mom, Kids, Motherhood

  "Gwyneth Lets Her Guard Down". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. January 4, 2011.

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• I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'

  Archie Panjabi

  Character, Wife, One Day

  "Archie Panjabi: 'I love roles that transform me'" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.

  Joan Cusack

  Fun, Thinking, Laughing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• I don't really follow market research. In the end, I respond to my own instincts.

  Anna Wintour

  Research, Ends, My Own

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• Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance of long term survival, is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Selfish, Past, Years

  "Abandon Earth - Or Face Extinction". bigthink.com.

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• I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.

  Katrina Kaif

  Character, Stories, Etc

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• The only damn thing I ever learned in all my years in art school was a piece is never done, it is just finished. You have to trust your inner voice, your instincts, when they tell you pencils down. And you roll up your sleeves and you start over again.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Art, School, Years

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• Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

  Emily Eden

  Keeping Secrets, Fool, Secret Life

  Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.120

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• The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

  Edith Wharton

  Balance, Desire, Sound

  Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman (2015). “The Decoration of Houses”, p.33, Courier Dover Publications

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• The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.

  John Train

  Running, Race, Crowds

  John Train (1994). “The craft of investing”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Knowing, Feelings, Intuition

  "Angela Ahrendts Reveals The Secret To Burberry’s Success" by Sarah Karmali, www.vogue.co.uk. August 5, 2013.

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• As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

  Kim Novak

  Confidence, Losing, Tough

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• Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

  Jacques Maritain

  Men, Blood, Imagination

  Quoted in Robert Fitzgerald (ed) Enlarging the Change (1985).

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• I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Nature, Cutting, Animal

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• In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Trust, Art, Choices

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• To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Toilers of the Sea: Works Of Hugo”, p.142, 谷月社

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• When there's no turning back, your instincts will lead you forward.

  T. D. Jakes

  Inspirational, Divine, No Turning Back

  Twitter post from Oct 6, 2016

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• One reason (among many) that women may well take over the world of "virtual enterprises" is that they seem to have a greater instinct for networking. And the unfettered-by-machismo males who have taken to networking will do better than those who shun it as "sissy stuff." But truth is, it has always been the age of "networkers"; and in an era where organizations depend more and more on tenuously connected outsiders to get the job done, it will only become so.

  Tom Peters

  Jobs, Taken, Power

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.54, Vintage

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