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

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

Those who have gone through the high school of reporterdom have acquired a new instinct by which they see and hear only that which can create a sensation, and accordingly their report becomes not only a careless one, but hopelessly distorted.

This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Trust your instincts, and take control.

To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn't lie.

Trust your instincts, trust your judgment.

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

Understand the "Gretzky Factor": Cultivate an instinct, a "touch", call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the "puck" is now and where it will be soon.

[Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct of combat, through every form of glorious ostentation, with the loudest accompaniment of noise.

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct.

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.

We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts.

We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage

We heed no instincts but our own.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

What better way to discover the unknown than to follow your instincts instead of your plans.

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.

When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.

When I feel something in my gut, I can feel it physically. But my instincts seem to come from a different place - they feel headier to me, and I get the wrong scent, and go off on these whims where I think that something is happening when it's not.

What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things. Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

When somebody is doing something really funny, in real life and as a performer, my instinct is to join them.

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.