Instinct Quotes - Page 18

• Who can justly measure the righteous influence of a mother's love? What enduring fruits result from the seeds of truth that a mother carefully plants and lovingly cultivates in the fertile soil of a child's trusting mind and heart? As a mother, you have been given divine instincts to help you sense your child's special talents and unique capacities.

  Richard G. Scott

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

  Jeffrey Combs

  Opportunity, Acting, Mixtures

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• The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

  Michael Chiklis

  Dad, Self, Challenges

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don't want the federal government making laws about swearing. We should trust people's own instincts about what is appropriate in any given situation.

  Richard Dooling

  Thinking, Government, Law

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• My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?

  Colin Firth

  Party, Substance, Actors

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• Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.

  Phyllis George

  Answers, Sometimes, Used

  Phyllis George (2002). “Never Say Never: 10 Lessons to Turn You Can't Into Yes I Can”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

  Barry Hannah

  Writing, Done, Too Much

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• Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, Too Much, Natasha

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• The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.

  Emir Kusturica

  World, Next, Problem

  "Momentum and Emotion, Emir Kusturica’s 'Black Cat, White Cat'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 09, 1999.

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• I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

  Gary Kemp

  Thinking, People, Sometimes

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• My instinct is to be very controlling.

  Gary Kemp

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• Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.

  Nancy McKeon

  Couple, Class, Careers

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• I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Levels, Firsts

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• I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Movement, Firsts

  "The outsider" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

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• It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely upon the weapon of secrecy. Secret societies, a language kept as far as possible secret, the use of false names in order to hide secret movements, secret relations between various parts of the Jewish body: all these and other forms of secrecy have become the national method.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Order, Names, Rely Upon

  Hilaire Belloc, Herbert Maurice Van Thal, Jane Soames Nickerson (1970). “Belloc: a biographical anthology”, Allen & Unwin Australia

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• All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.

  Brandon Lee

  Careers, Choices, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Intuition, Actors, Scripts

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• Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

  Jim Leach

  Angel, Sometimes, Moments

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• To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!

  Bill Rancic

  Being Yourself, Fun, Hard Work

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• I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.

  David O. Russell

  Careers, Fighter, Starting

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• Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

  Lance Reddick

  Auditions, Notes, Tricky

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2008.

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• I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

  Jim Sturgess

  Cities, Persons

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• My instincts are not comedic.

  Josh Lucas

  Comedic

  Interview With Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 24, 2002.

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• It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.

  Conway Twitty

  Voice

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• It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

  Holland Taylor

  People, Interesting, Young

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