Instinct Quotes - Page 33

• It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Important, Lessons

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• I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Political, Killers

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fiction, Kind

  "Salman Rushdie unleashes the genies in his new novel". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. September 8, 2015.

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• Go with your gut instincts even if it is contrarian to what the "experts" suggest.

  Jim Rohn

  Experts, Guts, Ifs

  Source: www.selfgrowth.com

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• There is no thing we cannot overcome Say not thy evil instinct is inherited, Or that some trait inborn makes thy whole life forlorn, And calls down punishment that is not merited.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Courage, Punishment, Evil

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1097, Delphi Classics

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• But you have to trust your instincts. Because you're not going to try it 20 different ways during rehearsal. You'll try it two or three different ways, maybe, but then you've got five other scenes you're shooting that day. You've got to keep going.

  Kevin Kline

  Two, Trying, Different

  "How Kevin Kline Helped Israel Horovitz’s ‘My Old Lady’ Film Debut". Interview with Joe Leydon, blogs.indiewire.com. September 18, 2014.

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• Studies say great harm can be done to a person if the connection between mother and child isn´t there from the start. Love is a basic need/instinct, and people can get quite desperate and become destructive if they don´t have it.

  Anne Sewitsky

  Mother, Children, Love Is

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There was an idea that God created man different from other animals, because man was rational and animals had drives and instincts. That idea of a rational man that was specially created went out the window when Darwin showed that we evolved from animal ancestors, that we have instincts, much as do animals, and that our instincts are very important. It was a much more sophisticated, nuanced, and rich view of the human mind.

  Eric Kandel

  Men, Animal, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes. That's when survival instincts kick in.

  Jay Rock

  Kids, Fighting, Worry

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The pace at which science has progressed has been too fast for human behaviour to adapt to it. As I said we are still apes. A part of our brain is still a paleo-brain and many of the reactions come from our fight or flight instinct. As long as this part of the brain can take over control the rational part of the brain (we will face these problems).

  Jean-Marie Lehn

  Fighting, Long, Brain

  Source: www.lindau-nobel.org

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• The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct.

  Steve Redgrave

  Race, Natural Instinct, Avoiding

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• I used to play a few instruments including guitar and snare drums, but I think a musical background is an important part of a career. If you start out playing instruments you create a better instinct and feeling for music.

  Nicky Romero

  Thinking, Guitar, Play

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• I have always trusted my instincts, I took some bold decisions in my life.....many people may say they were crazy risks.

  Bob Hartley

  Crazy, People, Decision

  Source: flamesnation.ca

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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.

  Christina Aguilera

  Usual, Use, Want

  "Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Blake Shelton and Pharrell Williams Talk The Voice". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. Februart 24, 2015.

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• I think human beings have a basic instinct to be free and explore their world in their own way. I've always been driven to look at life as something which we should try to plunge into rather than sit back. You have to be able to have fun and keep creating a sense of excitement to how you approach the world.

  Jack Nicholson

  Fun, Thinking, Creating

  Source: cinema.com

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• I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that. I have a hard time just listening for pleasure. I'm much less about instinct, and more of a utilitarian listener.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Hard Times, Thinking, Listening

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2006.

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• But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and - until the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself - an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.

  William L. Shirer

  History, Drunk, Imagination

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• I think the industry tends to like to think in the narrow sort of mindset of a businessman, and businessman absolutes, and movies really exist in a much grayer region of dreams and stuff like that, and instinct is prized in movies, it's not prized with the businessmen in movies, but movies themselves often reward instinct rather than pie charts.

  Brad Bird

  Dream, Thinking, Pie

  "Brad Bird Talks 'Iron Giant: Signature Edition', The Original Ending, And More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. October 1, 2015.

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• You can say something that can really help and actor and you can say something that can really get in the way of an actor's performance, kind of cut them off from their instincts and really get into their heads. And every actor's different. Every actor requires something different. Being an actor, for me, was the greatest training to be a writer and director.

  Josh Radnor

  Cutting, Training, Actors

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• I guess on a base level that's one of the first parental instincts that you have with children in Australia is learn to swim. Not only learn to swim but learn to swim strong.

  Eric Bana

  Strong, Children, Australia

  "Eric Bana Interview, Hanna". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
  With love's true instinct, back to thee!

  Thomas Moore

  Mothers Day, Mom, Heart

  Thomas Moore (1872). “The poetical works of Thomas Moore, with notes”, p.570

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• Explaining belief has alwayas been difficult. How do you explain a love and a logic at the heart of the universe when the world is so out of whack? Explaining faith is impossible - vision over visibility - instinct over intellect - a songwriter plays a chore with the faith that he will hear the next one in his head.

  Edward de Bono

  Jesus, Heart, Play

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• Systems die; instincts remain.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Innovation, Intuition, Aging

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• The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

  Henri Rousseau

  Men, Justice, States

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• The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Strong, Intuition, Worship

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