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

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

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.

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

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.

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

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

When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.

Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

Why should a manufacturer bet his money, perhaps the future of his company, on your instinct?

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

Who's to say what would have happened if I had trusted my instincts and moved to New York like I thought I would.

Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.

You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.

You have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.

You cannot love without intuition.

You have to trust your own instincts about what is appropriate and what is not appropriate and trust your own feelings about what you can and can't show for yourself, and it'll be different for everybody.

You know your gut instincts are spot on about a person when you can also detect a water source in the soil beneath them.

You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.

You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Your instinct is your true god. Follow it.

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

Act on your instinct. It is the spirit of your divinity.

A ‘biomass’ man reaction comes from reflexes and instinct

A biomass will live with a self-preservation instinct

Afterward the Captain was to tell himself that in this one instant he knew everything. Actually, in a moment when a great but unknown shock is expected, the mind instinctively prepares itself by abandoning momentarily the faculty of surprise. In that vulnerable instant a kaleidoscope of half-guessed possibilities project themselves, and when the disaster has defined itself there is the feeling of having understood beforehand in some supernatural way.

All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.

Aijayy’s emotions ripped her in different directions, part of her telling her to run, the other dying to help her friend. She did neither.

Always remember, when you're on the run, instinct will take over- and if you're not careful, you'll become nothing more than an animal.

Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is the motive force of the great portion of the serious labors of mankind.

Amanda is wrong. I do have an instinct about people, and it tells me David is just fine. I wonder if he doesn't cook because his wife did all the cooking until she died. I wonder what she was like. Like Ma, maybe, capable and in charge, always repeating rules and being protective. I felt smothered sometimes but I know Ma always tried to do what was right for me. One of her unsuccessful lessons in how to make and keep friends was 'Be a little mysterious.' Of course I could never find the right level of mystery. If I asserted myself, she said, 'Don't be too insistent,' and if I hung back too much, it was 'Don't be such a little wallflower.' I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty much always makes sense. Maybe that's part of why I love Midnight. Maybe she reminds me of me.

An exceptional Sensei has traits such as patience and integrity. Otherwise, natural fighting ability, cruelty and aggressive behavior may be observed in most animal predators.

Any advice which does not lead to self-improvement is misleading.

Are humans nutritional idiots? Our palates aren't just out of tune with our bodily needs. Our palates are out to kill us.

As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one expected to be one of these. Still it was an awesome thought and as the first contingents came struggling up on deck in full gear to form up, all eyes instinctively sought out immediately this island where they were to be put, and left, and which might possibly turn out to be a friend's grave.

Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason.

At that moment, I wished I were the wind, free to dance across her flesh, seep through her clothing, and explore the forbidden depths of her body beneath.

A tingling in her spine warned her the path that lay ahead was dangerous, but her curiosity placated her, driving her onward against her instincts.

As you consider your next move, practice this definition of trust: the willingness to take steps while simultaneously waiting for “instructions.

Be careful who's advice you heed to! It is better to listen to your heart.