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And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe. -- Walter Scott
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner. -- Shannon Elizabeth
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. -- Coco Chanel
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God. -- Willie Stargell
Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening. -- Ann Coulter
You've got to go with what feels instinctive and true to your heart, and filter out all of the other stuff. -- Alison Goldfrapp
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. -- George Orwell
When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships. -- Laura Linney
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. -- Henry R. Luce
Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head. -- Edith Head
Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them. -- Joseph Rotblat
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. -- William Gibson
Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is, from the biggest to the most venomous. -- Steve Irwin
I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds. -- Mikhail Bakunin
I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it. -- Naomi Campbell
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. -- Bruce Lee
I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into my work, I get lost sometimes in bizarre things - it's my Italian heritage. -- Francis Ford Coppola
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. -- Lydia M. Child
There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game. -- Delia Smith
It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present. -- Simon Schama
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual. -- Rem Koolhaas
Indecision may come from an instinctive hunch that there's more you need to know - which means it's time to learn everything you can about the pros and cons of each option. You can continue on this track, however, only as long as you're unearthing genuinely new information. -- Martha Beck
I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people. -- Ida B. Wells
I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does help a lot, especially when you've done badly or you've failed. It's instinctive of me that I look at what's next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat. -- Rahul Dravid
Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. -- Roger Ebert
I'm not an instinctive actor. -- John Thaw
Love isn't rational, it's instinctive -- Laurie Faria Stolarz
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Violence is the instinctive response to fear. -- Margaret Millar
The single most instinctive evil is discrimination -- Rahul Bose
Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear. -- Haruki Murakami
[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive. -- Ann Richards
The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive. -- Britta Phillips
Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes. -- D. H. Lawrence
the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive. -- Margaret Millar
For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing. -- Rachel Weisz
Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious. -- Austin Osman Spare
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos. -- Camille Paglia
I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life. -- Elizabeth Taylor
I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest. -- Ray Stevenson
Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use. -- Lu Xun
The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive. -- Craig MacDonald
The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life -- Roy Jenkins
I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive. -- F. Murray Abraham
Never be too busy to listen to your instinctive feelings when something feels wrong. -- Marie Osmond
You can't think about basketball or you ruin your game. It is an instinctive game. -- Dolph Schayes
Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis. -- Bertrand Russell
stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing. -- Laura Lippman
Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future. -- L. Ron Hubbard
An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. -- Abigail Padgett
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. -- Bruce Lee
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum. -- Thorstein Veblen
It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog. -- Charles Darwin
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked. -- Arthur Keith
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them. -- William Henry Hudson
The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive. -- George A. Sheehan
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. -- Edward Hall
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other. -- Edward Hall
If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country. -- Paul Monroe
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney. -- Betty Rollin
My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style. -- Jack Kirby
I can't tell people how to have style. No amount of money can buy you style. It's just instinctive. -- Iris Apfel
But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are. -- Rachel Joyce
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race. -- Amedeo Modigliani
Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive. -- Rebecca Hall
I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities. -- Mario Monti
For me, writing Bridget's [Jones] stories is an instinctive, organic thing, which tends to happen more by accident than design. -- Helen Fielding
It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload. -- Chris Gerdes
Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape. -- Mel Odom
As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person. -- Kim Novak
All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left. -- Bertrand Russell
Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride. -- Bliss Carman
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. -- Ernest Renan
Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee. -- Edward Abbey
I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up. -- Nigel Lawson
Fashion is instinctive and sensual. Learn to love what you wear. It should feel like eating chocolates...wi thout the calories -- Alber Elbaz
Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom. -- Shakti Gawain
If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes. -- Robert Breault
Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. -- Jane Goodall
I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music. -- Brian May
I'm an instinctive actor. I just see the part and play it. I'm more interested in what isn't said - the silences. -- Philip Glenister
Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion. -- Honore de Balzac
However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire. -- Vera Brittain
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting. -- Albert Einstein
I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing. -- Clive Owen
understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them. -- William James
The way I write is totally instinctive. I just write what I feel or what I find funny - and hope everyone else agrees. -- Sophie Kinsella
People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it. -- Danny Aiello
What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race. -- Amedeo Modigliani
Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change. -- James Martineau
I found that Scottishness and Englishness are actually strong, instinctive things, whatever the historical reasons. Even the accent changes - just two inches across the border. -- Rory Stewart
All women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for womanhood, motherhood and tenderness. -- Nelly Mazloum
I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive. -- Chris Bauer
I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process. -- Guy Ritchie
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should. -- Bertrand Russell
Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other. -- Sophie Swetchine
If you have an intuitive or instinctive feeling, follow it, and you will find that the Universe is magnetically moving you to receive what you asked for. -- Rhonda Byrne
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality. -- Richard Wright
If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating. -- Guillermo del Toro
The instinctive need to be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what these ideals are. -- Konrad Lorenz
I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about writing is very instinctive. -- Khaled Hosseini
The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity. -- John Hodgman
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama. -- George P. Baker
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama. -- George P. Baker
I'm not all that well-educated or well-read, and I always feel a little intimidated about that. I perceive things on a much more instinctive level instead of intellectualizing things. -- Theresa Russell
In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists. -- Noam Chomsky
Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them. -- Doris Lessing
Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly. -- Diane Watson
I'm instinctive. I'm still learning how to run the ball. What I've done may look good to everyone else, but I know I'm capable of more than I've shown. -- Clinton Portis
Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself. -- Walter J. Phillips
The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was as yet no light. -- Shusaku Endo
I think I'm probably just an old-fashioned Tory. I don't wake up each morning trying to figure out what kind of Conservative I am; for me it's quite instinctive. -- Sebastian Coe
When I say I'm instinctive [in writing], I do feel like I need to hide what I'm doing from myself. My mind just needs to be able to operate untrammeled. -- Brian Evenson

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