Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect… — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
"God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
I've learned that I am strong enough. When some people might have given up, I didn't. I found myself in situations where… — Olivier Rousteing 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
We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum… — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
I think the power of a grandchild is it taps an instinct that people later in life also have towards... the world… — David Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I have a motherly instinct and I'm always trying to give therapy. — BeBe Zahara Benet Copy Share Image
I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior. — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
I’m adding ‘canine’ to my searches,” I said. “And ‘instinct.’” “Whatever. I’m adding ‘lunatic. — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image