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  • 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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  • Each of has a natural instinct to rise like a flame. Lets nurture that instinct

  • Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

    John Sterling (1848). “Essays and tales, collected and ed., with a memoir, by J.C. Hare”, p.146
  • Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.

    "Yet Again".
  • Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

    Science   Men   Discovery  
    Novum Organum LXXIII
  • He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

    Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"
  • What I love about him [Robert Rodriguez] is that he understands that actors are transformational. It's a natural instinct to ask people to do what you've seen them do before. Until you see someone do something new, you don't know what they can.

    "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.
  • Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as "misogynous." In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies ... there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women's actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men.

    Sex   Men   Class  
    "No Law in the Arena: a Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Essay in "Vamps and Tramps", a book by Camille Paglia, 1994.
  • Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

    "Salma Hayek Is the Coolest Mom on the Planet". Interview with Sheri Reed, thestir.cafemom.com. October 28, 2011.
  • Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.

    Heart   Evil   Choices  
  • It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

    Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1943). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.11, Courier Corporation
  • The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man No longer a human being. It is a successful combination of both. That way it is a process of continuing growth.

    Mean   Successful   Men  
  • Your natural instinct, from your broadest Nonphysical perspective, is to know your power. Fear is a vibration when you feel powerless. Your natural instinctual Nonphysical vibration is to know your worthiness, know your rightness, know your value. And the feeling of fear is always when you are contradicting that thought.

  • Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

  • I don't think [being monogamous] is a natural instinct for human beings, but it doesn't mean I don't believe in monogamy or true love. I believe in finding a soul mate. Monogamy can be hard work for some people. I don't think it applies to everybody, and I don't think a lot of people can do it.

  • What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world?

    Home   Self   Outcomes  
  • Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

    Trust   Mistake   Failure  
  • Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.

  • Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.148
  • One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most basic urge is to reach out to another human being, even at a cost to ourselves. Giving to others-the urge to empathize, to be compassionate, and to help others altruistically-is not the exception to the rule, but our natural state of being. Our impulse to connect with each other has developed an automatic desire to do for others, even at personal cost. Altruism comes naturally to us. It is selfishness that is culturally conditioned and a sign of pathology.

  • Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

    "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 1993.
  • As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

  • A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

    Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.276, Simon and Schuster
  • Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another.

    Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum
  • Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

  • It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

    Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated
  • Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

    Life   Success   Music  
    Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4082, Delphi Classics
  • Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there.

  • I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

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