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  • My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.

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  • There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over.

  • Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile.

  • We say we embrace humanity, but what does that mean? We are all defined by our limits, so to what extent can we embrace all this? Because we all contain within ourselves equally the capacity for kindness, as much as for cruelty or evil. And the best of us are able to suppress those baser impulses, instincts. That's the war within.

    Kindness   War   Mean  
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  • 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.

  • Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

  • Systems die; instincts remain.

  • I know I have pretty good instincts.

    Instinct   Knows  
  • I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.

    Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.134, Macmillan
  • From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

    Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”
  • If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting

    Bars   Pounds   Instinct  
  • The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

    Lying   Healthy   Absence  
    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.693, GENERAL PRESS
  • I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

    Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub
  • For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of animals prompted by their instincts, becomes crystallized almost entirely outside the individuals. In other words, social rules, as Durkheim has so powerfully shown, whether they be linguistic, moral, religious, or legal, etc., cannot be constituted, transmitted or preserved by means of an internal biological heredity, but only through the external pressure exercised by individuals upon each other.

    Religious   Mean   Animal  
    Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.186, Simon and Schuster
  • Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.

    Cutting   Men   Survival  
    Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.4, New World Library
  • I guess everybody's different, but I know that everybody's natural instinct is to remember the bad stuff more than the good stuff.

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  • Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.

    "Drew Barrymore: The Latest Drew Stories". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. April 1, 2003.
  • I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

  • Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

    Men   Play   Hunters  
    Tennessee Williams (1999). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.34, New Directions Publishing
  • Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.

    Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.89, Penguin
  • Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.

    Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 33, l. 145 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)
  • 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.

    Men   Roots   Imagination  
    "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.
  • the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in.

    Simple   Two   People  
    Nicholas Sparks (2013). “True Believer”, p.126, Hachette UK
  • It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

  • I'm very headstrong and I know what I want from life. I listen to peoples' opinions, but a lot of the time I'll trust my own instincts. I'm also really clumsy, so I'm always getting hurt.

    Hurt   Want   Opinion  
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  • My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

    Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.186, Tara Publishing
  • Once I began following my own instincts, sales took off and I became a millionaire. And that, I think, is a key secret to every person's success, be they male or female, banker or p0rnographer:Trust in your gut.

  • What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me ... I should prefer the obedience, affections and instinct of a dog before it.

    Dog   Men   Average  
    Michael Faraday, F. James (1999). “The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 4: 1849-1855”, p.542, IET
  • If Mozart, instead of playing the pianoforte at three years old with wonderfully little practice, had played a tune with no practice at all, he might truly have been said to have done so instinctively.

    Years   Practice   Tunes  
    Charles Darwin (2016). “On the Origin of Species”, p.158, Zillmann Publishing
  • Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

    Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.81
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