Instinct Quotes - Page 15

• Thirteen years after Basic Instinct, Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) is now in London, and is going out with a footballer played by Stan Collymore, of all people. On the rebound from John Motson, perhaps. It is difficult to convey just how uproariously awful this movie is, all of the time.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Soccer, Football, Media

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• When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being.

  Jacob Aue Sobol

  Trying, Use, Photograph

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• Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of our being and the result of these impressions is our character. The study of books, of music, or of the fine arts is not essential to a lofty character. It rests with the worker whether a rude piece of marble shall be squared into a horse-block or carved into an Apollo, a Psyche, or a Venus di Milo. It is yours, if you choose, to develop a spiritual form more beautiful than any of these, instinct with immortal life, refulgent with all the glory of character.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Horse

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.481, e-artnow

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• The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Motivational, Men, Monkeys

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Assignment in Eternity”, Pocket Books

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• The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly.

  Emmet Gowin

  Photography, Heart, Ideas

  "Emmet Gowin: 'Everyone thought my photographs were incestuous'". Interview with Sarah Moroz, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2014.

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• My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

  Eliot Porter

  Photography, Emotion, Photographer

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• To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Effort, Cost, Able

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• The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ego, Enemy, Savages

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• The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Party, Errors, Society

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2004). “Why I am So Wise”, p.79, Penguin UK

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• Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Men, Light

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.261, Modern Library

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• I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Struggle, Mean, Men

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• One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five or six feet high, and float buoyantly there like a duck, cunningly taking to its wings and lifting itself a few feet through the air over the foaming crest of each breaker, but sometimes outriding safely a considerable billow which hid it some seconds, when its instinct told it that it would not break. It was a little creature thus to sport with the ocean, but it was as perfect a success in its way as the breakers in theirs.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sports, Ocean, Air

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Watches, Impress, Species

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind. Nor think I that God's world would fall apart Because we tear a parchment more or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past. I do not fear to follow out the truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Past, Thinking

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”, p.178

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• Never presume that I will not act on my worst instincts.

  Cesare Borgia

  Worst

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• An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an instinct for work can be an obstacle to the child's development

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Hands, Firsts

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• Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Kind, Cruelty

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.458, 谷月社

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• I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not stopping until you finish. I love the immediacy of trusting your instincts.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Play, Challenges, Modern Family

  "Jesse Tyler Ferguson On Shakespeare In The Park: ‘I Love The Challenge Of Starting A Play". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hunger, Appetite, Providence

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.16, University of Georgia Press

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• I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, People, Democracy

  1898 Notebook, ch.31, Feb ^ Mar.

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• When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

  Erich Fromm

  Sadism, Sexuality, Impulse

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• No matter what these terrorists do, I refuse to be terrorized. All this requires is just a few alterations in our day to day lives. For example, my first instinct when I receive an envelope full of white powder... is to snort it! I just won't do that this time!

  Margaret Cho

  White, Firsts, Example

  "Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O". TV Special, June 13, 2002.

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• My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

  Saul Bellow

  Life, Mean, Mind

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, America, Poetry

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.149, Penguin

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• I prepare to the point where instinct take over.

  Stephen Curry

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