Instinct Quotes - Page 20

• There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

  Paul Samuelson

  Vegas, Gambling, People

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• The herd instinct is the new chic! It's like belonging to a club!

  Eugenia Sheppard

  Clubs, Herds, Chic

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• I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

  Katie Leung

  Running, Drama, School

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• The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.

  Sonya Levien

  Men, Fascination, Looks

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• The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.

  Cole Younger

  Long, People, Peculiar

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• Why does soldiers leave the protection of his trench hole in the ground and go forward in the face of shot and shell? It is because of the leader who is in front of him and his comrades who are around him. Comradeship makes a man feel warm and courageous when all his instincts tend to make him cold and afraid.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Military, Men, Leader

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• My watchful animal instinct to avoid people is almost overpowering.

  Samantha Abeel

  Animal, People, Solitude

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• Because one has the animal instinct to seek out the people that suits one - you see people that go on life's journeys and get muddled along the way. If you look at their lives they've always gone with the wrong people... can you say it's the wrong people - I don't know.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Journey, Animal, People

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• Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

  Jonathan Swift

  Lying, Bears, Talent

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1801). “Poems, Polite convesation, etc”, p.166

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• Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Born, Ability

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• The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Healthy, Absence

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.693, GENERAL PRESS

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• How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Earth, Littles, Slipping

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• Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.

  Donald Trump

  People, Fortune, Good Fortune

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Dark, Echoes, Cities

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “Collected Poems 1931-74”, p.169, Faber & Faber

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• There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.

  Alberto Moravia

  Book, Heart, Vanity

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• I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Barbarians, Violence, Artistic

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• Our training pushes us to develop a new set of instincts: instead of reacting to danger with a fight-or-flight adrenaline rush, we're trained to respond unemotionally by immediately prioritizing threats and methodically seeking to defuse them. We go from wanting to bolt for the exit to wanting to engage and understand what's going wrong, then fix it.

  Chris Hadfield

  Fighting, Training, Exit

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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• One of the things that I truly have had to learn, sometimes the hard way, but that I'd like to share with you is to trust your own instincts no matter what people might say about you, no matter what criticism or what negativity might come your way for just being who you are, and just being yourself, it's so important. Tonight is your night.

  Christina Aguilera

  Trust, Being Yourself, Night

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• When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspiration, Emotional, Long

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.132, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

  Rachel Carson

  Beautiful, Children, Garden

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Honesty, Believe, Home

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most basic urge is to reach out to another human being, even at a cost to ourselves. Giving to others-the urge to empathize, to be compassionate, and to help others altruistically-is not the exception to the rule, but our natural state of being. Our impulse to connect with each other has developed an automatic desire to do for others, even at personal cost. Altruism comes naturally to us. It is selfishness that is culturally conditioned and a sign of pathology.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Exception To The Rule

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• I follow my instincts and my excitement.

  Rory MacDonald

  Mma, Excitement

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• The warrior instinct comes in, the heart, determination, the will to win. Even though you're rocked you still have to fight hard, to come back.

  Timothy Bradley

  Determination, Heart, Fighting

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• Every character lives in ever actor and if you're doing your job right, you're just accessing that part of your fantasy life. I can kill someone just as quickly as I can have sex with someone. You can switch that instinct, no matter what - you can pretend anything.

  Matthew Lillard

  Jobs, Sex, Character

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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