Instinct Quotes - Page 34

• If you ask people, as I often do, how they make decisions, 'lucky' people will talk about tuning in to information and instincts, while 'unlucky' people often mention pushing away the uncomfortable feeling they were headed for trouble.

  Martha Beck

  Uncomfortable Feeling, People, Decision

  "Learn how to time success and avoid failure" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2010.

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• A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.

  Adam Smith

  Reality, Government, Criminals

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• Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any of that stuff helped, then all the smart people would have the same opinions. So use your "gut instinct" to make voting choices. That is exactly like being clueless, but with the added advantage that you'll feel as if your random vote preserved democracy.

  Scott Adams

  Smart, Clueless, Intelligent

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• It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts down, and you follow your instincts. Or, at least, you.

  Mike Carey

  Running, Brain, Doe

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• Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.

  Jim Evans

  Real, Games, Training

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• Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving.

  Gary Chapman

  Falling In Love, Emotional, Choices

  Gary Chapman, Ross Campbell (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/The 5 Love Languages Men's Edition/The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers/The 5 Love Lan”, p.143, Moody Publishers

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• It's amazing how sudden the effect is - it must be the result of a deep atavistic mating urge buried inside us. A glance and you think: 'Yes, this is the one, this one is right for me.' Every instinct in your body seems to sing in unison.

  William Boyd

  Thinking, Body, Results

  William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Roots, Imagination

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.

  George Bancroft

  Life, Flower, Natural Instinct

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• And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down.

  Jack London

  Dog, Animal, Long

  Jack London (2011). “Call of The Wild, White Fang”, p.51, Bantam Classics

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• The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

  Francis Bacon

  Skills, Creative, Making Love

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• When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Self, Bees

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• I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

  Brian Wilson

  Hands, Feelings, Guides

  "The Low Down on the Low End". Interview with Carol Kaye in December 09, 1999. Bassics, www.intimateaudio.com. June/July 2000.

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• The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

  Francis Bacon

  Skills, Creative, Culture

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• Writing is above all a question of instinct.

  Anthony Powell

  Writing

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• The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

  Voltaire

  Men, Pursue

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.3470, Delphi Classics

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• Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

  Edward Young

  Sweet, Reason, Leap

  Edward Young (1847). “The Complaint: Or, Night Thoughts”, p.109

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• I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term.

  Jim Bolger

  Government, Democracy, Election

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• A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

  William Ellery Channing

  Men, Temptation, May

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• I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

  Francis Bacon

  Illustration, Drawing, Would Be

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• No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with another human is so fundamental a part of our nature that our judgement of what is known as 'pure form' is inevitably influenced by it, and one of the difficulties of the nude as a subject for art is that these instincts cannot be hidden.

  Kenneth Clark

  Art, Judgement, Erotic

  Kenneth Clark (1956). “The nude: a study in ideal form”, M J F Books

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• I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself,
  yet cannot overcome — and so I live. Would I had never lived!

  Lord Byron

  Overcoming, Hateful, Despise

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• If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods. Sometimes the signal light loves you. Sometimes they fight you. When you're hunting for a new building, you hope the city is on your side. You have to use a little bit of thinking--you might call it the process of elimination--and you need a little bit of instinct, but not too much of either. If you think too hard, you overshoot your target and end up at the Pier or the Tenderloin. If you relax and let the city help, the destination does all the work for you.

  Scott Adams

  Love You, Fighting, Thinking

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• Man is man because he chanced to develop intelligence instead of instinct; otherwise he would to this day have remained among the anthropoid apes. He has turned away from nature, become unnatural, as it were, disliked the earth upon which he found himself, and changed the face of it somewhat to his liking.

  Jack London

  Men, Earth, Faces

  Jack London (2014). “The Kempton-Wase Letters”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• The marriage tie becomes possessed of a history and takes to itself traditions. This history and these traditions form a great fund, to which changing conditions and growing imagination constantly add. And the traditions, more especially, bear heavily upon the individual, overmastering his natural expression of the love instinct and forcing him to an artificial expression of that love instinct. He loves, not as his savage forbears loved, but as his group loves.

  Jack London

  Expression, Ties, Imagination

  Jack London (2017). “The Complete Novels of Jack London – 22 Adventure Classics in One Volume (Illustrated): The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang, The Iron Heel, Martin Eden, Burning Daylight, The Scarlet Plague, A Son of the Sun, The Valley of the Moon, The Star Rover, Hearts of Three…”, p.449, e-artnow

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