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" Quotes and Sayings About instinct

Never do anything that you don't want to do. Listen to your instincts and follow it.

Never You Listen Instincts
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Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

Nature's Creative Power Destruction
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Approximate Apprehend Sufficient Guess
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.

Teenagers Surveys Logos Staggering
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Love Play Creative Mind
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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 triggered by a normal voice.

Melody Nerves Triggers Body
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“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. Trust your instincts, good relationships feel good, they feel right, they don’t hurt.”

Trust Good Relationship Right
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Formal Gardens Guess Instinct
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It is imperative to rely on one’s own instincts in taking stock of one’s own capabilities, and in evaluating a new business opportunity.

Stock Rely Imperative Instincts
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Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Away Budget Cancer Citizen
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Individual Morality Instinct Herd
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It's not like I mean to throw no-look passes. I think it kind of happens out of instinct. As I do it, I'm like, 'Dang, I didn't even mean to do that.'

It's Not Like Mean
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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Destroy Diseases Him Instincts
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Fame Great Great Souls Instinct
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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.

Expense Gratified Instinct Claim
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Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.

Beautiful Happier Instincts Intention
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Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Arouse Authenticity Desire Hard
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Heart Instinct Like There
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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Character Clothes Had Influence
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Against Healthy Instinct Like
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Decided Deliver Find Inspiration
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The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Aggression Culture Disposition Independent
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Built Civilization Extent Impossible
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Derives Desires Fact Falls
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eautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later year…the alienation from the sources of our strength.

Nature Wonder
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My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.

Daughter My Lila Style
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All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.

Because Everyone Follow I Can
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I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

America Been Before Body
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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

Avoid Change Common Instinctively
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In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
Alert Awaits Choose Close
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Better Cases Composed Doubtful
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Any Enough Few Instincts
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

Love Isn't An Emotion
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Aims Between Clear Enemy
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Adult Age Eight Expose
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I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

About Experience Go Instinct
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Hopeful To Embrace One
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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Essence Followed Independently Instinct
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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Any Believed Could Curious
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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Average Blame Doubt Instinct
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The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

Human Hand Strange Mixture
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At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.

Body Dizzy Reel Kind
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You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

Really Have Courageous Instincts
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

Bad Believe Find Finding
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. “Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”

Truly-successful Decision-making Balance Deliberate
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I like to play cards. I'm not very good, because I don't want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I've learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.

Because Business Calculate Cards
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How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

Desperation Instinct Possibility Disguise
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My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.

Style Ability Anatomy Feel
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I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Ask Go Instinct Marketing
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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.

Prejudice Speak Mechanical instincts
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