Natural Instinct Quotes

• Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Motivational, Underestimate, Dare

  Twitter post from Jun 18, 2016

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• There is no instinct like that of the heart.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Heart, Intuition

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• Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

  Don Marquis

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.

  Henry Winkler

  Voice, Mind, Path

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• Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, Hair, Swings

  Ben Hogan (2010). “Power Golf”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

  Billy Wilder

  Trust, Mistake, Failure

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• Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Long, Would Be, May

  "Saturday interview: Aung San Suu Kyi". Interview with Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2011.

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• Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Xenophobia, Fear, Racism

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.70, Routledge

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  As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

  Ayrton Senna

  Determination, Racing, Mind

  "Ayrton Senna: Racing Is in My Blood". Documentary, 1992.

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• Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

  Henri Bergson

  Intuition, Faculty, Instruments

  Henri Bergson (2014). “Creative Evolution”, p.139, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

  John Sterling

  Self, Intuition, Consciousness

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and tales, collected and ed., with a memoir, by J.C. Hare”, p.146

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• Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

  Ben Hogan

  Funny, Sports, Athlete

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• Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Meat Eating

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

  Henri Matisse

  Tree, Intuition, Branches

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• I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Strength

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• Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

  Laurence Olivier

  Intuition, Instinct, Inherent

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

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• I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

  Socrates

  Inspiration, Writing, Mean

  "Apology" by Plato (sct. 21),

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• I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Teacher, Teaching, Long

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Intuition, Today, Trust Myself

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• Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

  Anne Archer

  Odds, Soul, Actors

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• I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

  Barbra Streisand

  Worry, Experience, Instinct

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• He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Happiness, Oysters, Unhappy

  Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"

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• To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.

  Max Beerbohm

  Nature, Strongest, Stills

  "Yet Again".

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• Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Success, Music

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4082, Delphi Classics

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• Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Trust, Choices

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.148

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