Instinct Quotes
1476 quotes by 1077 authors
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Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else.
— Judith McNaught
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Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against…
— Clarence Darrow
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If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives…
— Thorstein Veblen
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Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile.
— Karin Slaughter
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Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start…
— Daniel Silva
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The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward acquired knowledge.…
— Philipp Meyer
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I dont like doing whats expected. Ive always done best when Ive listened to my instincts rather than following convention or doing what other people…
— Shawn Colvin
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Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.
— Seth Godin
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I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.
— Boz Scaggs
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I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where…
— Jennifer Capriati
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You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, naked…
— Asger Jorn
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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed…
— Loren Eiseley
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Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be…
— Unknown Author
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Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.
— Eric Liddell
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Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid…
— Freya Stark
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The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense…
— May Swenson
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Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.
— Maria Montessori
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It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and…
— Maria Montessori
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