“Are humans nutritional idiots? Our palates aren't just out of tune with our bodily needs. Our palates are out to kill us.” — Mark Schatzker Copy Share Image
Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production. — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be… — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it. — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to… — Irving Kahn Copy Share Image
A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
Follow your heart, Not the world. It'll get you much further in life, trust me. — Anonymous 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
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism. — Edward'O Copy Share Image
If you take someone's thoughts and feelings away, bit by bit, consistantly, they then have nothing left except some gritty, gnawing, shitty… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I guess everybody's different, but I know that everybody's natural instinct is to remember the bad stuff more than the good stuff. — Sam Trammell Copy Share Image
The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impressions have sunk down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The biggest thing I've learned is to listen to my own gut. I have learned to trust my instincts. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the… — Melanie Klein 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
I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I'm not sure where… — Heidi Klum Copy Share Image
Your emotions for someone may create a cloud of confusion over the judgments you make. Remember, not everyone reacts mentally. A lot… — Lucas Copy Share Image
I looked at enough of American Idol in the first weeks, and they're all about humiliation. I listen to Rush Limbaugh because… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
[My choice about scripts] is just a question of what I fall in love with. You have to use some kind of… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you… — Feist Copy Share Image
Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots… — Jennifer Capriati Copy Share Image