Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone. — Sugar Ray Robinson Copy Share Image
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
As a kid, in the Runaways, I would see the interviewers start to ask about our personal lives and what we did… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything. — Erol Alkan Copy Share Image
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body.… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere… — Feist Copy Share Image
As an actor, if you step to the side and you look at [Thornton's performance] technically, and you try to imagine doing… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and… — Maude Royden Copy Share Image
Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share Image
What is commonly honored with the name of Friendship is no very profound or powerful instinct. Men do not, after all, love… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
