Instinct Quotes - Page 18

• Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

  Fannie Flagg

  Water, Suffering, Natural Instinct

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• When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

  Jean-Philippe Rameau

  Morality, Reason, Appeals

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• I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

  Millard Drexler

  Running, Numbers, Intuition

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• American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Christian, Lying, Culture

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. August 12, 2011.

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• Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

  Soong May-ling

  Country, Progress, Politics

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• I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan’s work. Like Andy, Ryan’s finger is so on the pulse of culture that he’s ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

  Dylan McDermott

  Believe, Echoes, Museums

  "Dylan McDermott: Scared Straight". Interview with Brandon Voss, www.advocate.com. November 16, 2011.

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• I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

  Carla Gugino

  Artist, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I live on my gut instinct.

  Melanie Brown

  Gut Instinct, Guts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.

  Kid Cudi

  People, Misunderstood, Trying

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• The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.

  David Deutsch

  Fall, Apples, Numbers

  "Philosophy will be the key that unlocks artificial intelligence" by David Deutsch, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.

  Joshua Ferris

  Loneliness, People, Community

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• I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

  Will Ferrell

  Drama, Thinking, Play

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• I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

  Gary Gygax

  Risk, Gut Instinct, Guts

  "Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax" by David Kushner, www.wired.com. March 10, 2008.

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• I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

  Lori Greiner

  Knowing, Going To Work, Innate

  FaceBook post by Lori Greiner from Oct 01, 2013

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• None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Book, Planning, Release

  "Peter Ackroyd: 'I just want to tell a story'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2011.

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• How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Cultural Relativism, Hunger, Hungry

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, September 1, 2004.

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• I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Strong, Children, Cutting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Who can justly measure the righteous influence of a mother's love? What enduring fruits result from the seeds of truth that a mother carefully plants and lovingly cultivates in the fertile soil of a child's trusting mind and heart? As a mother, you have been given divine instincts to help you sense your child's special talents and unique capacities.

  Richard G. Scott

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

  Jeffrey Combs

  Opportunity, Acting, Mixtures

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• My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?

  Colin Firth

  Party, Substance, Actors

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• Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.

  Phyllis George

  Answers, Sometimes, Used

  Phyllis George (2002). “Never Say Never: 10 Lessons to Turn You Can't Into Yes I Can”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

  Barry Hannah

  Writing, Done, Too Much

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• Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, Too Much, Natasha

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• I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Movement, Firsts

  "The outsider" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

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• All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.

  Brandon Lee

  Careers, Choices, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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