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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.

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

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 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 must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn't lie.

Trust your instincts, trust your judgment.

Trust your instincts, and take control.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

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

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

We heed no instincts but our own.

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

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

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.

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

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 now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

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.

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

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 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 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.