Quotes with instincts

  • When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
  • The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
  • As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
  • Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
  • To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!
  • The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.
  • What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
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  • Oprah Winfrey Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Albert Einstein If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • C. S. Lewis Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Brandon Lee All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Bono As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Carlos Ghosn Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Albert Einstein But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Will Durant Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • E. M. Cioran Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
    Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
    Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (1897 - 2003)
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  • Henry Miller Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Helen Rowland Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bjork Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Albert Camus For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Billy Zane For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
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  • Elizabeth Janeway Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
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  • George Orwell I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Agnetha Faltskog I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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