Instinct Quotes

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Where instinct fails, intellect must venture. — Jim Butcher
...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside… — Seth Godin
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. — Robert A. Heinlein
the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in. — Nicholas Sparks
Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be… — Bill Bryson
For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events… — Stefan Zweig
My life isnâ€™t theories and formulae. Itâ€™s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and Iâ€™ve absorbed what logic… — Audrey Hepburn
I still donâ€™t believe it. Itâ€™s not in him. Yeah, and you are delusional. Babe, news flash, with the exception of you and the pirate,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
A dominant wolf's desire to protect was a strong instinct- Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inch, and he's take over the world- my… — Patricia Briggs
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious… — Oscar Wilde
Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my… — Susan Sontag
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way… — Robert Frost
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, itâ€™s unlikely you will step up… — Noam Chomsky
Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick… — Eve Ensler
You just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart. — Gerard Way
I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another… — Henry David Thoreau
Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and… — Terry Pratchett
But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a… — Laurell K. Hamilton
You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except… — George Orwell
Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets… — David Clement-Davies

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