Instinct Quotes - Page 39

• I am also about trusting maggot instincts. If I get played or taken advantage of? So be it. That's a life lesson. I would rather have believed in someone and get hurt than live life with distrust. I always go into a relationship with trust.

  Masi Oka

  Hurt, Life Lesson, Live Life

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• Real men don't do pickup lines just to sweep off every girls' feet. They do and trust their own instincts knowing what the girls' wants and needs. Vying to win their hearts.

  Jean Kerr

  Girl, Real, Heart

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• Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he tells us why we didn't honor the Geneva accords and hold elections in Vietnam: because some 80 percent of the country would have voted for Ho Chi Minh. This is very candid. The sort of thing one might have found in Stalin'smemoirs, had he not made ghosts even of ghosts.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, War, Honor

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• I found that with Rooney, her instincts in films was always to underplay and to sort of reduce down what was necessary to bring you in - a sense of economy, a sense of scale, which just seemed to understand the medium so well. When you see that in a younger actor, I always think it speaks to incredible knowledge. I can't exactly figure out where that comes from, that confidence to know how to be quiet.

  Todd Haynes

  Thinking, Actors, Quiet

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• I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.

  Jon M. Chu

  People, Trying, Process

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• I think carrying your gut, or your instincts, through all the learning, is one of the most important things. You learn to prepare for a part in different ways, you learn to experiment, what you do for the character - you try working in different ways.

  Paul Dano

  Character, Thinking, Important

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• There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Men, Yield, Psychology

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• Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your instincts. Far better to seek out models of what you can't do.

  John Updike

  Thinking, Curiosity, Trying

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• Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.

  Laszlo Bock

  Reality, Thinking, People

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• The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices calling in the night from far-away places where blue waters lap strange shores. He hears birds singing and crickets chirping a luring roundelay. He sees the moon, yellow ghost of a dead planet, haunting the earth.

  Jim Tully

  Moon, Night, Men

  Jim Tully (2004). “Beggars of Life: A Hobo Autobiography”, p.167, AK Press

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• My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Political, Should

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• You can take the smartest kid at Wharton, the one who gets straight A's and has a 170 IQ, and if he doesn't have the instincts, he'll never be a successful entrepreneur.

  Donald Trump

  Kids, Successful, Entrepreneur

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.45, Ballantine Books

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• If you take someone's thoughts and feelings away, bit by bit, consistantly, they then have nothing left except some gritty, gnawing, shitty little instinct, down there, somewhere, worming around in the gut, but so far down, so hidden, it's impossible to find.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Feelings, Littles, Impossible

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• The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

  Antonin Artaud

  Actors, Crude, Vague

  Antonin Artaud (1974). “Collected Works”, Calder Publications Limited

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• By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.

  Bill Walsh

  Running, Two, Leader

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• Our understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western civilization would probably flunk. We have a very convenient and self-serving way of defining intelligence. If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

  John Robbins

  Animal, Self, Civilization

  John Robbins (2011). “Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth”, p.38, H J Kramer

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• With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Mistake, Morality, Moral

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• Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

  John Key

  Personality, Decision, Prime

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Presently we have to train our unconscious to function better. Then we can depend upon our instincts, that will be noble instincts. At this moment, our instincts are very impure. When we have practiced for a long time, living the higher values of life and following the instructions of great masters or the Scriptures, that is when you have trained your unconscious. Then when a situation comes, you can to an extent, depend on your inner voice.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Voice, Long, Noble

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• Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

  William James

  Reality, Theatre, Heroism

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.123, Xist Publishing

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• I was a coward on instinct.

  William Shakespeare

  Coward

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [304]

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• By actually taking Sleepy Hollow and the Rip Van Winkle story, and finding the spirit of what was great about both of them and putting them together. So it felt, actually, like one of those ideas that clicked for us, right away, on instinct.

  Alex Kurtzman

  Rip, Ideas, Together

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• What I have learned first and foremost is to follow your instincts. As a filmmaker, there are no rules as to how to play this game. That is a big problem I think that exists in the education on how to be a filmmaker or how to make movies.

  Brad Furman

  Thinking, Games, Play

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• Every time I trust my instincts I land on my feet and every time I don't, I go, "Why didn't I trust my instinct?"

  Brad Furman

  Land, Feet

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• I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Stories, Common, Produce

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