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Sometimes my natural instincts take over and I just go overboard.

Sorry. An overdeveloped nurturing instinct comes with being a healer.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

Studios are attracted by making money, and they're also trying to simplify things, going with the genre thing. The gambling instincts of a few years ago where you might make some thousands or a few hundred, it's nothing now.

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

Supposing you've got an acute appendicitis. You've got to be operated on tonight. Would you like to have a surgeon who's read some books of anatomy and knows how to do that operation - or would you prefer to have a surgeon who refused to read all books about anatomy and relied on his own instinct?

Survival instincts are one of those things that never die.

Survival is my primary instinct...it's out of my control. It's stronger than me. It's an outside force, a voice that says 'do this for your life or it will devour you.'

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

That`s instinct, you catch and you shoot. I`ve done it hundreds of thousands of times in my driveway. It`s what I`ve practiced.

Systems die; instincts remain.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

That is what's disconcerting about working on the show, you can't seem to get an instinct about what works and what doesn't. It happens a lot, and in different ways.

The apostles had this instinct: When in trouble, pray. When intimidated, pray. When challenged, pray. When persecuted, pray!

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.

The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things.

The herd instinct is the new chic! It's like belonging to a club!

- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.

The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.

The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

The more knowledge you have, the more you're free to rely on your instincts.

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure.

The intention of showing myself to the world has always been to be how I want to be and how I'm comfortable in the world, never to be anonymous. Right now, I'm just going with my instincts, and this is what I feel like doing. I'm always honest in what I put across.

The Killer instinct is not perceived by words, but by look.

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

The only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. It was only really one time.

There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.

There's no wrong move on stage. You can do no wrong if you just trust your instincts.

There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from within. And yet the same instinct tells us that this change is a recovery of that which is deepest, most original, most personal in ourselves. To be born again is not to become somebody else, but to become ourselves.

There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.