Instinctive Quotes

185 quotes by 163 authors

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a wise and intuitive counselor available 24/7? You're in luck-you already have one. Your body! Our bodies carry ancient… — Sue Thoele
Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught;… — William Hughes Mearns
The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate… — George Santayana
Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will… — Walter J. Phillips
It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play their part, and… — Henry Stephens Salt
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
It is that holy poetry and singing we are after. ... It is the wild singing we are after, our chance to use the wild… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining… — John Keats
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. — Mahatma Gandhi
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no… — William Gibson
I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too much heart into… — Francis Ford Coppola
Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening. — Ann Coulter
I think, as I've gotten older, I've been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices… — Willem Dafoe
Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow… — Roger Ebert
The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of… — Roger Ebert
Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought… — Mohsin Hamid
Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is,… — Steve Irwin
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind… — Rem Koolhaas
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality… — Bruce Lee

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