Instinct Quotes
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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.
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Instinct leads, logic does but follow.
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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.
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
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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.
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I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.
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But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.
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In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.
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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.
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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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.
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If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts.
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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.
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
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Follow your instincts, and handle all with respect and diplomacy.
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One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.
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I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.
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Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.
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You just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart.
