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 also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
What I have learned first and foremost is to follow your instincts. As a filmmaker, there are no rules as to how… — Brad Furman Copy Share Image
So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork,… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
His instincts should have warned him sooner than they had, but thanks to his agimortus, he'd been hobbled like a brood mare… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think the industry tends to like to think in the narrow sort of mindset of a businessman, and businessman absolutes, and… — Brad Bird Copy Share Image
The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It felt like I'd been playing second-string football for a long time, when, suddenly, I was playing in the Super Bowl. Even… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln did have intellectual instincts, a tremendous curiosity on a broad range of subjects, and a near-photographic memory for what he… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
You must believe in your own instincts and your own instincts at any particular time and believe that they were the right… — Dominic Cooper Copy Share Image
There is a universal fascination with the living dead. There is more to a zombie story that a bunch of corpses attacking… — Julie Ann Dawson Copy Share Image
There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent… — Audrey Flack Copy Share Image
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human,… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
That is what's disconcerting about working on the show, you can't seem to get an instinct about what works and what doesn't.… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
Always trust your first gut instincts. If you genuinely feel in your heart and soul that something is wrong, it usually is. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for… — Emily Blackwell Copy Share Image
There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one… — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
“It was instinct that drove him to hibernate, not choice, but he would have chosen it at that moment anyway because he… — K.J. Wignall Copy Share Image
In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar taste and aspirations and… — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
Basic Instinct 2' is camp, not because it takes itself too seriously, nor because it sends itself up, but because we are… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“In order to survive in a world of instinct, its' alternative is to hunt or being hunted. Reject this, then be prepared… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and… — Alexandra Breckenridge Copy Share Image
You always want to know what happened before you. It's a human instinct to know where you came from and what preceded… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
As an adult after college and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian… — Alfre Woodard Copy Share Image
See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image