Instinct Quotes - Page 12

• You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Mistake, Clothes, Labels

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• I stepped onto the spiritual path moved by an inner sense that I might find greatness of heart, that I might find profound belonging, that I might find a hidden source of love and compassion. Like a homing instinct for freedom, my intuitive sense that this was possible was the faint, flickering, yet undeniable expression of faith.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Spiritual, Heart, Greatness

  Sharon Salzberg (2003). “Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience”, p.18, Penguin

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• I don’t follow fashion and I don’t follow trends, I just follow my instincts...

  Victoria Beckham

  Fashion, Trends

  "Victoria Beckham For i-D: Designer Dishes Out Clothing Advice" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

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• Whenever we need to make a very important decision it is best to trust our instincts, because reason usually tries to remove us from our dream, saying that the time is not yet right. Reason is afraid of defeat, but intuition enjoys life and its challenges.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Enjoy Life, Decision

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 28, 2010

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• In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Skills, Support, Growth

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• The best decisions aren't made with your mind, but with your Instinct.

  Lionel Messi

  Decision, Mind, Made

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• Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Imagination, Empathy

  Speech at the 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' Memorial, delivered 12 January 2011, McKale Memorial Center, University of Arizona, Tucson

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• Take people's advice and guidance in the beginning, but always follow your instincts first

  Alexander Wang

  People, Follow Your Heart, Advice

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• Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

  T. D. Jakes

  Mother, Bird, Nests

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• The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reading, Giving, Advice

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2597, Delphi Classics

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• From when I was really young one of the first things I did was to perform and do shows. It was like a natural instinct.

  Colin Morgan

  Natural Instinct, Firsts, Young

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• I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.

  M. F. Husain

  Expression, Giving, Soul

  "What price freedom of expression now?" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

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• Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Attitude, Mind

  Maria Montessori (2004). “The Discovery of the Child”, p.92, Aakar Books

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• If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Thinking, Needs, Middle

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• The more knowledge you have, the more you're free to rely on your instincts.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Rely, More Knowledge

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Total Recall (Enhanced Edition): My Unbelievably True Life Story”, p.607, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away.

  Peter Hessler

  Ambition, Pride, Organization

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• I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I want to be. Motherhood has taught me mindfulness. If you just parent on instinct, you'll screw your kid up for life. You have to be so mindful.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mom, Kids, Motherhood

  "Gwyneth Lets Her Guard Down". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. January 4, 2011.

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• I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'

  Archie Panjabi

  Character, Wife, One Day

  "Archie Panjabi: 'I love roles that transform me'" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

  Peter Mullan

  Imagination

  "Peter Mullan: the swot who lost the plot". Interview with Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2011.

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• Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

  Raquel Welch

  Successful, Ideas, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.

  Joan Cusack

  Fun, Thinking, Laughing

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• I don't really follow market research. In the end, I respond to my own instincts.

  Anna Wintour

  Research, Ends, My Own

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• Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance of long term survival, is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Selfish, Past, Years

  "Abandon Earth - Or Face Extinction". bigthink.com.

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• I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.

  Katrina Kaif

  Character, Stories, Etc

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• Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Fire, Discovery

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