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Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

Let passion be your muse. Let her guide and teach you to trust your instincts.

Let's suppose we all just materialized on Earth and there was a bunch of potatoes on the ground, okay? There's just six of us. Only six humans. We come into a clearing and there's potatoes on the ground. Now, my instinct would be, let's everybody get some potatoes. "Everybody got a potato? Joey didn't get a potato! He's small, he can't hold as many potatoes. Give Joey some of your potatoes." "No, these are my potatoes!" That's the Republicans. "I collected more of them, I got a bigger pile of potatoes, they're mine. If you want some of them, you're going to have to give me something.

Let your *need* guide you behavior. *Supress* your instinct to lead... Pursue Rabbit!

Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.

Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals.

Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.

Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

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

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

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 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 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] 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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