Instinct Quotes
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I want her so much that it overrides everything else, every other thought in my head, every instinct, every restraint.
Beth Revis -
Instinct leads, logic does but follow.
William James
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There’s not much to me but animal instinct. Don’t look to me for a logical discourse on your charms.
Courtney Milan -
I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.
Kate Burton -
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
Rita Mae Brown -
My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
Ang Lee -
My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
Patrick deWitt -
In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.
Edvard Grieg
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When somebody keeps telling you, 'This book is amazing,' you sort of have this pleasing instinct to say, 'Oh, let me make you happy again; let me do that trick again.'
Paolo Bacigalupi -
If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts.
Chris Matthews -
Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
Jimmy Buffett -
If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair, its this: Im not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.
William Hague -
One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.
Joan Fontaine -
It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.
Gail Tsukiyama
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I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture.
Dan Pink -
A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.
George Bernard Shaw -
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.
Robert Frost -
If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.
Michael Ealy -
Follow your instincts, and handle all with respect and diplomacy.
Rachael Yamagata -
the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.
Melanie Klein
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Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.
Virginia Woolf -
Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.
Glenn Frey The Eagles -
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 -
I remember and know the Bill of Rights. But my instincts tell me to be helpful, and (that attitude) is surprising to a lot of cops who deal with Internet crimes.
Craig Newmark