Instinct Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Emotion, Vote

  "Limbaugh – ‘When WOMEN Got The Right To Vote Is When It All Went Downhill’" by Kimberley Johnson, www.addictinginfo.org. July 4, 2012.

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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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• 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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• Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Sadness, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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• 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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• You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Mistake, Clothes, Labels

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• 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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• In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Skills, Support, Growth

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• Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Imagination, Empathy

  Speech at the 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' Memorial, delivered 12 January 2011, McKale Memorial Center, University of Arizona, Tucson

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• Take people's advice and guidance in the beginning, but always follow your instincts first

  Alexander Wang

  People, Follow Your Heart, Advice

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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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• Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Attitude, Mind

  Maria Montessori (2004). “The Discovery of the Child”, p.92, Aakar Books

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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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• You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

  Peter Mullan

  Imagination

  "Peter Mullan: the swot who lost the plot". Interview with Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2011.

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• Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

  Raquel Welch

  Successful, Ideas, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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 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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• Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Fire, Discovery

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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 ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Tree, Awakening

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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