Instinct Quotes - Page 36

• Intuition always has our best interest at heart.

  Christina Baldwin

  Heart, Intuition, Interest

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• If mothers are told to do this or that or the other,... they lose touch with their own ability to act.... Only too easily they feel incompetent. If they must look up everything in a book, they are always too late even when they do the right things, because the right things have to be done immediately. It is only possible to act at exactly the right point when the action is intuitive or by instinct, as we say. The mind can be brought to bear on the problem afterwards.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Mother, Book, Mind

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• The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same organs, the same instincts, the same impulses, the same conflicts, the same fears. Out of this common ground have come what Jung has called the archetypes, which are the common ideas of myths.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ideas, Inward, Body

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.60, Anchor

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• Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Decision, Principles

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.69, Lantern Books

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• With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.

  Edith Head

  Stars, Caring, Female

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• See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath!
  He that but fears the thing he would not know,
  Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes,
  That what he feared is chanced.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Tongue, Suspicion

  William Shakespeare, Giorgio Melchiori (2007). “The Second Part of King Henry IV”, p.87, Cambridge University Press

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• People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

  Frank Herbert

  People, Useless, Vote

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.146, Penguin

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• Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

  Nicolas Cage

  Character, Want, Locked

  "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.

  Werner Herzog

  Giving, Imagination, Perspective

  "Werner Herzog's Cave Painting Documentary 'The Birth of the Modern Human Soul'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 16, 2011.

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• We're at risk of losing this iconic species for all time. Once it's stripped of its natural instincts, it's no longer a tiger. But there's a lot of species like that. The more intriguing thing, throughout Asia, a lot of these countries are selling off their jungle-and-forest rights for oil and for paper-and-pulp companies.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Country, Rights, Oil

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• Its always important to fall back on your instincts and core beliefs and that was pretty hard for me to do but trusting in my self the way I trusted that if I were to sit at a piano for two hours and I was going learn something, that trust I'd put in myself really helped me get through it. For five to six months I just wrote songs and believed they would turn out to be things I could be proud of and be happy.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Song, Fall, Self

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• That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't fake it, you can't get by it. This is dealing with the most primal instincts and emotions that a mother can have.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Mother, Lying, Fake

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• Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by.

  Clayton Christensen

  Past, Leader, Risk

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• You go into this survival instinct mode, when you feel like your life is in jeopardy. I found myself in the bathroom with my taser, which I have 10 of, my panic button and my cell phone. It was the most terrifying experience I've ever had in my life

  Emma Roberts

  Cells, Phones, Survival

  Source: collider.com

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• If you feel something artistic, you need to get it out of you, do it. You gotta get out and play in front of people. You can't stay in the bedroom, get out sooner rather than later. Use your gut instinct.

  Chris Wyse

  Play, People, Needs

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• All over the world, relationships between men and women are very, very tricky and very difficult and you don't learn anything. It's not an exact science, so you can't learn anything. You're always going by instinct and your instinct betrays you because you want what you want when you want it.

  Woody Allen

  Men, World, Want

  "Woody Allen Interview To Rome With Love". Press conference with Woody Allen, www.moviesonline.ca. June, 2012.

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• If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other illustrations or duplicate what you've drawn, but it will never have that gut reality that's instinctive in the artist.

  Jack Kirby

  Artist, Reality, Illustration

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way forward and pull back just a little on the stick. ... " One might as well explain music by saying that the further over to the right you hit the piano the higher it will sound. The makings of a flight are not in the levers, wheels, and pedals but in the nervous system of the pilot: physical sensations, bits of textbook, deep-rooted instincts, burnt-child memories of trouble aloft, hangar talk.

  Wolfgang Langewiesche

  Children, Memories, Boys

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• When I feel something in my gut, I can feel it physically. But my instincts seem to come from a different place - they feel headier to me, and I get the wrong scent, and go off on these whims where I think that something is happening when it's not.

  Emma Stone

  Thinking, Different, Scent

  Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2012.

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• Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, Acting

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman's motherly instincts.

  Bill Burr

  Growing Up, Thinking, Boys

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.

  Karl Popper

  Political, Important, Facts

  Karl Popper (2012). “In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years”, p.28, Routledge

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• Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.

  Art Linkletter

  Children, Knowing, Adults

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• It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Important, Lessons

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• Go with your gut instincts even if it is contrarian to what the "experts" suggest.

  Jim Rohn

  Experts, Guts, Ifs

  Source: www.selfgrowth.com

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