Instinct Quotes

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You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good. — James E. Faust
Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years. — Malcolm Allison
It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his pictures.… — Bill Brandt
The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor. — Alfred Stieglitz
Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a… — Loren Eiseley
The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings. — Nelson Mandela
I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of… — Gore Vidal
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money. — Louis Untermeyer
Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain… — Noam Chomsky
To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907,… — John Kenneth Galbraith
It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad masses of its… — Adolf Hitler
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes. — Erving Goffman
He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your… — D. H. Lawrence
Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but go your own way.… — Sergio Bambaren
The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys. — C.S. Lewis
Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life… — Brian Aldiss
Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt. — Charles Darwin
I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is… — Janis Ian

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