Instinct Quotes
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Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within--to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.
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If someone writes something shitty and you actually address them, most of the time they're just like, "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm a big fan." And they're really nice people. When you're on the Internet, it's people's first instinct to just go after people.
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Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
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Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.
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My family especially has always taught me to be myself and not let other people's opinions change me. To always believe my instincts and follow my heart.
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He had forgotten that the most elemental instinct in human nature is not hate but love, the former inextricably linked to the latter.
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When you're living by instinct, then you will naturally enhance everything and everyone around you. In other words, success will come naturally! When both your intellect and instincts are aligned, then producing the fruits of your labors brings satisfaction beyond measure.
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When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.
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Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.
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The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings.
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We have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.
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Let it be admitted at once, mournful as the admission is, that every instinct in his intelligence went out at first to greet the new light. It had hardly done so, when a recollection of the opening chapter of 'Genesis' checked it at the outset.
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I prepare to the point where instinct take over.
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I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it's hard to hear sometimes, because it's a noisy world and there's a lot of people talking to you.
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Hey, this has been said before over the past century or so. But there's a survival instinct going on that is demonstrated on a small scale here.
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Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
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My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.
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You know, a lot of people have an instinct to downplay the fact that they are performing and be, like, 'There is no theatre here. This is just me playing the songs.' At some point I just realised how much better it could be if you weren't shy about being a performer.
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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.
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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.
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Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.
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Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.
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Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.
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Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.
