Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
“My instinct was to keep him at a distance, at that distance, certainly, that we introduce between ourselves and those we suspect… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Most important decisions are not to be made with the mind; they are to be made with the heart. So when you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Always LISTEN to your instincts. When someone is using you, or playing you, and things aren't adding up your instincts will tell… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
If you're serious about what you're doing, you've got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you won't reach the… — Jonny Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Wanderlei is the guy who brought the killer instinct out of me, I had no choice. When he would say 'Khalil, let's… — Khalil Rountree Jr Copy Share Image
“I guess you can't compare humans to birds. Humans are rational beings. They're not just creatures without any sense of responsibility, ruled… — Johanna Sinisalo Copy Share Image
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
One is that I'm really interested in movies about sex and lust, because I think those are primal, carnal instincts that translate… — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“My mouth hung slightly open, i was getting ready to sat something important. what i wanted to say was: I's so, so… — Anna Jarzab Copy Share Image
One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct. If I was to walk down… — Kid Cudi Copy Share Image
As a mayor, my instinct is to really think about how to get something done and not to make the promise unless… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
“Man no longer follows instinct with the old natural fidelity. He has developed into a reasoning creature, and can intellectually cling to… — Jack London Copy Share Image
A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares,… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I'm so respectful of good writing. It's the blueprint for the movie. You have to have that script there because, if you… — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
When your gut feelings tell you something, LISTEN to it because 9 times out of 10 it's telling you the TRUTH! Don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
I hate that 'I got it' stuff. That drives me nuts. It's that natural instinct that everything's OK because you're winning. — Mike McCarthy Copy Share Image
Instinct Versus Intuition: Instinct is fear based, designed to protect. Intuition is possibility based, designed to create. — Tanya Lacy - Intercept Experience Copy Share Image
Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's… — Adrian Lyne 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… — Richard Lerner Copy Share Image
That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That's a testament to Shondaland who cast everyone off self-tapes. That creative instinct that they work through and they encourage everyone to… — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“A dominant wolf's desire to protect was a strong instinct--Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inch, and he'd take over the… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first! — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation -… — John Key Copy Share Image
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
