“Imitation is a real instinct, but it is not always playful; play is a real instinct, but it is not always imitative.… — Karl Groos Copy Share Image
The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
What I was doing when I was creating my werewolves is really basing them on a wild wolf pack, as much as… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Humanity is mostly operating on the level of instinct, even though it has the power of the rational mind. It is a… — X5 Copy Share Image
As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is bad, but it's not the worst vice in the world. If I declared “murder is wrong” and then killed somebody,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
What are you doing?" "Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly. It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices… — Jim Tully Copy Share Image
Generosity is revolutionary, counter-instinctual. Our survival instinct is to care only for ourselves and our loved ones. But we can transform our… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
To have a friend does not end when you argue. Actually, friendship started when that thing happened. Not because you call each… — Myself Copy Share Image
The natural instinct is to join in the chorus of conflict, to make your voice louder, your point bigger, and your position… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Choose to listen to your inner voice, not the jumbled opinions of everyone else. Do what you know in your heart is… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Anger is a divinely implanted emotion. Closely allied to our instinct for right, it is designed to be used for constructive spiritual… — David Seamands Copy Share Image
How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a… — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily… — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Working on camera is a different ballgame in the sense that it's far more intimate work, but the basics and the foundations… — Rose Leslie Copy Share Image
Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and… — Angela Ahrendts Copy Share Image
My business savvy it’s instinct. Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it’s… — Tamara Mellon Copy Share Image
We are now in a position to understand the anti-Semite. He is a man who is afraid. Not of the Jews, to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“At times, reality is love’s great challenge. When our old stories and dreams are shattered, our first instinct may be to resist,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
We feel great compassion for parents whose love and protective instincts for their challenged children have moved them to some positions that… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
I know Donald Trump as a very adaptive person. In my nearly three and a half decades of being in the military,… — Michael T. Flynn Copy Share Image
My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I've never been trained as an actress, so it's all instinct. I just let myself go into this kind of a free… — January Jones Copy Share Image
The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to… — Blue Balliett Copy Share Image
In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
