“The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but it is instinct.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many have seen my worst times,actually I feel my best is always my worst because I'm always trying to better those times… — Manotti Street Copy Share Image
Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm always afraid going into strange places, but I also choose carefully and listen to my instincts. These were men I could… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait… — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A lot of amazing comedians that I've worked with just really follow their instincts and you can't really teach someone comedic timing.… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I would say that among my many huge emotional miscalculations was my taking a film career for granted. It is the most… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll read things in the script and think, "That's not how humans behave," or "I don't understand how to do that… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like not thinking when I am working. I thrive on that feeling of attempting to move on total instinct and inner… — Howe Gelb Copy Share Image
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. — Katharine Butler Hathaway Copy Share Image
It's not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody's an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton's an… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There are points in life when you listen to common sense and there are times when you follow instinct; sometimes, you ignore… — Aden Jamison Leirer Copy Share Image
People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue,… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have… — Jerry West Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. As you grow up… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial… — Ivanka Trump Copy Share Image
Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To me, I always listen to what my instincts tell me. The biggest mistakes I've ever made is when I've ignored what… — Glenda Bailey Copy Share Image
“No, because of instinct. You can tell who to trust. People can, just like animals. We don't listen as well as they… — Huntley Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Since I'm fortunate enough to be neither hesitant nor indecisive, I've always made a point of consulting my partners and associates whenever… — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
