Instinct Quotes - Page 27

• A person born with an instinct for poverty.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Poetry, Poverty, Born

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

  Arnold Bennett

  Mother, Sex, Joy

  Arnold Bennett (1935). “The journal of Arnold Bennett”, Viking Press

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• If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Lying, Cocky, Squares

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• Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

  Karl Abraham

  Normal, Patient, States

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”

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• I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

  Julian Barnes

  Self, Survival, Preservation

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.42, Random House

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• Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on. . . But you've got to begin. . . You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Money, Play, Done

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1605, Simon and Schuster

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• Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all female dogs have, she tries to lick my ears off.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.38, Ballantine Books

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• Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They have increased the standards of living and comfort. They have eliminated infinite drudgery. They have increased leisure. But that gives more time for devilment. The work of science has eliminated much disease and suffering. It has increased the length of life. That, together with increase in productivity, has resulted in vastly increased populations. Also it increased the number of people engaged in devilment.

  Herbert Hoover

  Life, Science, Animal

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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 trust my instincts.

  Billy Zane

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

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• When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  People, Giving, Charity

  Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (2015). “Beasts and Super-Beasts”, p.156, Read Books Ltd

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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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• 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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• When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

  Anderson Cooper

  Long, Adults, Gone

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.

  Gina Carano

  Fighting, Kind, Moments

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. January 19, 2012.

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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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• Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.

  Jeff Daniels

  Two, Riding, Doe

  "Jeff Daniels: Anchoring The Cast Of 'The Newsroom'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 20, 2012.

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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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• A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

  Omar Epps

  Doubt, Directors, Overbearing

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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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• The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds feel with a sort of instinct for which of times they are unable to account.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Science, Probability Theory, Appreciate

  "Théorie Analytique Des Probabilités". Book by Pierre-Simon Laplace, second edition, 1814.

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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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