Instinct Quotes - Page 36

• There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of a film and what is repetitive and what is the minimum amount you can get away with to tell the story, that scene didn't make it in.

  Peter Jackson

  Real, Stories, Use

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Let your *need* guide you behavior. *Supress* your instinct to lead... Pursue Rabbit!

  Cheshire Cat

  Rabbits, Needs, Behavior

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• I don't think about making sexy clothes. It's just my instinct to make them.

  Donatella Versace

  Sexy, Thinking, Clothes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You must believe in your own instincts and your own instincts at any particular time and believe that they were the right ones for any given situation. So, there's no point ever of kind of regretting something because you can't properly remember the exact circumstances in which you were playing out this particular scene. You have to believe in your intuition and your instinct at that moment.

  Dominic Cooper

  Regret, Believe, Intuition

  "Exclusive interview: Dominic Cooper talks "Reasonable Doubt"". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 16th, 2017.

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• In your twenties, I think you should have all of the sex that you're inclined to have, as long as you're safe about it. Use condoms and everything. Go with your instincts. This is the time to have a lot of sex and do drugs. But make sure you live through it.

  Sarah Silverman

  Sex, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

  Gloria Steinem

  Childhood, Beaten

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Working on camera is a different ballgame in the sense that it's far more intimate work, but the basics and the foundations of being able to create something that isn't necessarily your own instincts - is a character that you have inside your head - whether you're talking about television or film or theater, that still has to be the grounding work.

  Rose Leslie

  Character, Talking, Foundation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the highest. - A bee doubtless would [use] ... instincts as a criteria.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Intellectual, Use

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• There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? ... Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Sacrifice, Fate

  "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter III, Aphorism 55, 1886.

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• One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

  Henri Matisse

  Lost, Behinds, Courses

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• Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Taken, Gains

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Strong, Mountain, Break Out

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.43, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment. Freud is right: societies either become locked in a collective embrace of Eros, as individuals do, or a collective embrace of Thanatos, the death instinct. They swing between the two. The notion that societies are naturally prone toward self-preservation is wrong. Self-annihilation can be deeply addictive, intoxicating, enticing. So I take a darker view of human nature, that war is probably always going to be with us. I think history bears me out.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Thinking, Self

  "Addicted to War: A Conversation with Chris Hedges". Interview with Metta Spencer, peacemagazine.org. April-June 2007.

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• All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Ignorance, Men, Effort

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.1371, Modern Library

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• Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Loss, Thinking, Looks

  "The Art of Failure" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. August 21, 2000.

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• Once we have a sense of how long a decision should take, we generally should delay the moment of decision until the last possible instant. If we have an hour, we should wait 59 minutes before responding. If we have a year, we should wait 364 days. Even if we have just half a second, we should wait as long as we possibly can ... Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires a pause.

  Frank Partnoy

  Wise, Reflection, Years

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• I think the first film you do with your instincts because you haven't learned with another director or you haven't worked on other films, so you tend to do things your own way. I think what I learned the most was to take your time, to try to be less rushed into things and have some distance with what you're doing.

  Nadine Labaki

  Distance, Thinking, Trying

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I don't have a very good relationship with baking. I do bake sometimes, but my natural instinct is to just do what feels right a lot, and that's what you're not supposed to do in baking. I'm not a good baker.

  Thu Tran

  Good Relationship, Bakers, Natural Instinct

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One of the things that I love about writing novels is that it really doesn't matter what next step you take as long as you're pursuing some intuition or instinct. Of course, then, intuitions or instincts don't make for great novels, but they often make for good first drafts.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Writing, Long, Intuition

  "Extremely Dead and Incredibly Gross". Interview with Keira Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to learn how to be a father before you even become a father, from a very young age. It's necessary to override what we're told in society a father should be, like if your son falls and scrapes his knee, you got to be tough. Baseball and all that are cool, but it's the tenderness and interactions that are really important. Boys are different; we have to impart that sensibility and that tenderness to them.

  Malik Yusef

  Baseball, Jobs, Father

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Any person by nature has inherent capabilities. You have to trust your instincts and act with spontaneity.

  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

  Spontaneity, Capability, Inherent

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an image, or a situation that sounds compelling - and then you just feel your way around until you find the edges of your story. It's like going into a dark room... you stumble around until you find the walls and then inch your way to the light switch.

  Dan Chaon

  Wall, Writing, Character

  Interview with Tom Barbash, www.believermag.com.

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• Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.

  Jonathan Schell

  Knees, Reason, Creation

  Jonathan Schell (2000). “The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition”, p.156, Stanford University Press

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• The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.

  Edward'O

  Expression, Hatred, Violence

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• From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading to your kids now will repay itself a million-fold later, not only because they love you for reading to them, but also because, years later, when they’re gone and miles away, those quiet evenings, when you were tucked in with them, everything quiet but the sound of the page-turns, will, seem to you, I promise...... sacred.

  George Saunders

  Reading, Love You, Kids

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