...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have… — Jerry West Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. As you grow up… — Romola Garai 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
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I'm jealous of the ease with which they seem to… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep… — Mildred Cable Copy Share Image
Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right. If they have a preconceived… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
I went to Catholic high school, so my being in this [the craft] is not going to make my grandmother very happy.… — Robin Tunney Copy Share Image
Explaining belief has alwayas been difficult. How do you explain a love and a logic at the heart of the universe when… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
“Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we… — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally… — Julie Delpy 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
It's a survival instinct to find the lighter side of things, especially when the reality you're faced with is quite dark. — Jamie-Lee O'Donnell Copy Share Image
With John Wick we wanted to do something like that. So rather than punching, kicks - and for the kind of way… — Chad Stahelski Copy Share Image
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I would definitely say I'm a feminist. To me, it just means being attentive and mindful. It's about equality and equal treatment.… — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which… — Sienna Miller Copy Share Image
My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy, and move on without any kind of hesitation… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche. — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
“With the truest instinct of my kind, I’d bound myself securely into the body’s center of thought, twined myself inescapably into its… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
One day I had an instinct to put on a kaftan and go out and sing. People liked it out of the… — Demis Roussos Copy Share Image
My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with… — Jean-Marc Vallee Copy Share Image
“Reason. It is no more reliable a tool than instinct, myth or dream. But it has the potential to be far more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going… — Audie Murphy Copy Share Image
With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex. — Edith Head 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
It's important for me to really play with the traditions and keep things simple and easy. Ultimately I believe in animal instincts… — Peter Dundas Copy Share Image
Real men don't do pickup lines just to sweep off every girls' feet. They do and trust their own instincts knowing what… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image