Instincts Quotes

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Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It… — Sigmund Freud
[My choice about scripts] is just a question of what I fall in love with. You have to use some kind of instinct meter about… — Mira Sorvino
Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow.… — George Lois
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probableâ€”namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections… — Charles Darwin
A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and… — Charles Darwin
Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear down. It is true only in a relative sense. We are not… — Maurice Samuel
There are... for us no instinctsâ€”we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today… — John B. Watson
George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been,… — Hunter S. Thompson
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them. — C.S. Lewis
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a… — Ludwig von Mises
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things — Clifford Geertz
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field'… — C. Wright Mills
Follow your instincts - you never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them. — Lulu Guinness
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today… — J I Packer
Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you. — Richard Branson
How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? No dramatic art… — Rod Serling
You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive medium… — Robert Doisneau
Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even… — Margaret Thatcher

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