Instinct Quotes - Page 27

• Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.

  Boris Sidis

  Religious, Agency, Evil

  Boris Sidis (1916). “The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases”

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• In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Family, Home, Race

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• What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world?

  Humphry Davy

  Home, Self, Outcomes

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• Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts.

  Ann Bridge

  Real, Needs, Demand

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.175, A&C Black

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• with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with the artistic instinct and everybody more or less writing poetry - California has a pageant for breakfast, a fiesta for luncheon and a carnival for dinner. They are always electing queens. In fact any girl in California who hasn't been a queen of something before she's twenty-one is a poor prune.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Girl, Country, Queens

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• the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart.

  Lillie Devereux Blake

  Struggle, Heart, Religion

  Lillie Devereux Blake (1883). “Woman's Place To-day: Four Lectures, in Reply to the Lenten Lectures on "Woman" by the Rev. Morgan Dix ...”

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• Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.

  Abby May Alcott

  Pride, Silence, Yoke

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• It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.

  Arianna Huffington

  Responsibility, Self, World

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• I don’t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isn’t good, or isn’t useful for natural creative instincts

  Kenneth Branagh

  Race, Creative, Competition

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• Fortunately for me, its my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we dont have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.

  Landon Donovan

  Soccer, Country, Thinking

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• Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Thinking, Sometimes

  "Bertolucci on Bertolucci". Interview with Rebecca Stokes, www.moma.org. January 3, 2011.

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• The nobility of Teresa Leo's poems is that they are not disposed to hide from the dark-rather, they display a mind that tends toward obsession and brooding, that works against fatality like fingers at a knot. The firm, attentive mind on display and the lucid unfolding of the poems are the life instinct seeking and finding its way through again and again. Love and beauty are the argument, but they don't win easily. Bloom in Reverse works through elegy toward survival with moving persistence, both driven and compelling.

  Tony Hoagland

  Moving, Dark, Winning

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• You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

  Lorrie Moore

  Fiction, Pay, Bills

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• It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.

  Julian Sanchez

  Religious, Order, Ideas

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• The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.

  Herbert Spencer

  Skills, Political, Humanity

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• I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.

  Grace Hopper

  Sex, Children, Men

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• Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.

  Matt Smith

  Sacrifice, Dedication, Discipline

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What I think after reading the script and seeing where the story goes, I go with my instincts on the character. If my instincts are wrong the director and the producers will guide me in the right direction. That's just kind of how I take on any role, be it a fantasy movie or not.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Reading, Character, Thinking

  "EXCLUSIVE: Josh Hutcherson Enters the Bridge to Terabithia". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. June 18, 2007.

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• Being "America's Sweetheart", that label gets put on a lot of people. I don't pay that much attention. And I'm not trying to shake anything. I'm just following my instincts and doing work that is coming to me and I'm just grateful for it.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Grateful, America, People

  "Jennifer Aniston & Clive Owen Talk Derailed". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. November 09, 2005.

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• I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.

  Tom Kenny

  Brain, Process, Feels

  "SpongeBob's Tom Kenny talks his favorite voiceover artists". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2013.

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• The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.

  George Carlin

  Firsts, Impulse, Obligation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You have to trust your instincts and know that the right question or the right answer will come to you. You don’t always have to have the solution to the problem; sometimes it’s very interesting to watch somebody go through the process of solving the problem, but it’s got to be truthful.

  Cat Deeley

  Interesting, Answers, Watches

  "Tim Gunn and Cat Deeley on Good Hosts, Bad Reality Shows and Unfair Judges". Interview with Debra Birnbaum, variety.com. August 5, 2014.

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• Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.

  Steve Martin

  Editing, Years, People

  "COVER STORY : A Side Order of Steve Martin : He's had his ups and downs with L.A., but they're back together in his new movie". Interview with Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. February 3, 1991.

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• By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.

  Steve Pavlina

  Mean, People, Advice

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• When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.

  Rob Bell

  Revenge, Insulting, Want

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