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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!

Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

My business savvy it’s instinct. Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it’s a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it’s wrong.

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.

My gut and intuition told me it wasn't time to do this.

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

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.

My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things

My instincts are not comedic.

My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

Nature is so huge. I mean, you can't even look one way! Everything is huge. That was my natural instinct, to create huge art, to create huge pieces. And to me, I still could create bigger works. The opportunity doesn't come along to do anything any bigger. So I've worked as big as I've had the opportunity to work, basically.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

Never give up, trust your instincts!

Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning.

No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more of a small shop mindset well into the twentieth century, for instance.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.

Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts.

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.

Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

Often you have to rely on intuition.

One is that I'm really interested in movies about sex and lust, because I think those are primal, carnal instincts that translate well to a visual medium. Two, these things that I write, or want to make, are an expression of - I don't want to say darker instincts, but let's say darker instincts. But that's why I'm a writer.

One thing I have learned is that I should trust my 'gut' instincts. Ultimately, only we know what is best for us.

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced.

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.