Instinct Quotes - Page 16

• As an adult after college and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.

  Alfre Woodard

  Christian, Real, Science

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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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• Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.

  T. D. Jakes

  Inspirational, Believe, Data

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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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• It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

  Ivanka Trump

  Learning, Skills, Important

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• He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Girl, Cutting, Garden

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone is free to set up an opinion and to adduce proofs in support of it. Whether, though, a scientist shall find it worth his while to enter into serious investigations of opinions so advanced is a question which his reason and instinct alone can decide. If these things, in the end, should turn out to be true, I shall not be ashamed of being the last to believe them.

  Ernst Mach

  Believe, Science, Support

  Ernst Mach (1893). “The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Exposition of Its Principles”

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• I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.

  Melissa Rauch

  Teacher, School, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I'm going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.

  Bjorn Borg

  Leadership, Sports, Player

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• I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I'm not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the little things that make you into who you are.

  Heidi Klum

  Survivor, Littles, Little Things

  "Heidi Klum: A Supermodel's Secrets to a Sizzling Marriage". Interview with Holly Hays, www.sfgate.com. August 06, 2010.

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• Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

  Jules Verne

  Men, Creative, Captains

  Jules Verne (2013). “Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision, and its police the State tries to obstruct all free activity and sees this repression as its duty, because the instinct of self-preservation demands it. The State does not permit me to use my thoughts to their full value and communicate them to other men unless they are its own Otherwise it shuts me up.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Self, Police

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• My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

  Florence Welch

  Skills, Style, Enthusiasm

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• It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Fear, Dark, Animal

  Cornell Woolrich, Francis M. Nevins (2005). “Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories”, p.382, Carroll & Graf

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• Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Fear, Men, Air

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• To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.

  Maurice Blondel

  Humanity, Deceit, Salvation

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• Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

  Christopher Alexander

  Vision, Arise, Builder

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• Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts.

  Ori Hofmekler

  Choices, Ability, Feels

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• Food and sex have been bound together for a long time. I guess this is due to the intimate connection between the two most powerful instincts that predominate in life: the instinct to survive and the instinct to multiply. Nourishment and sex give us a great sense of pleasure. Having the wisdom to satisfy both desires—for food and sex—is the art of living well. I truly believe that this wisdom lies within us all.

  Ori Hofmekler

  Art, Sex, Powerful

  Ori Hofmekler (2009). “The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body”, p.182, North Atlantic Books

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• I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Thinking, Society

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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• When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being.

  Jacob Aue Sobol

  Trying, Use, Photograph

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• The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Motivational, Men, Monkeys

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Assignment in Eternity”, Pocket Books

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• The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly.

  Emmet Gowin

  Photography, Heart, Ideas

  "Emmet Gowin: 'Everyone thought my photographs were incestuous'". Interview with Sarah Moroz, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2014.

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• My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

  Eliot Porter

  Photography, Emotion, Photographer

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• I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Struggle, Mean, Men

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