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Quotes About Instincts

Maturity imposes its own behavior. One of our lessons—make those imperatives available to consciousness. Modify instincts.
~ Frank Herbert
En derinlerdeki dürtülerimizi gizlemeye çal??t???m?z zaman tüm varl???m?z ihaneti hayk?r?r.
~ Frank Herbert
There's something hostile about the way they enter and leave the room that tells you what they think of you. It could be your imagination and you try to figure out what will bring them over to your side. You try lessons that worked with other classes but even that doesn't help and it's because of that chemistry. They know when they have you on the run. They have instincts that detect your frustrations.
~ Frank McCourt
I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.
~ Marla Gibbs
Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere.
~ Brian Koslow
Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
~ Adam Ferguson
We all have an obligation as actors to be true to ourselves and our best instincts, but often there's a higher purpose, which is to serve the text and, in the grander sense, serve the series, even if that means to fall on your sword and take the hit.
~ Peter Scolari
Listening to your instincts, while being the easiest, can also be the hardest thing to do.
~ Tena Desae
Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
~ Ian Hacking
My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.
~ Roman Polanski
There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play.
~ Romulus Linney
It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world
~ Rosa Brooks
People live from one play to the next. In between, before the curtain goes up, they don't quite know what the plot will be or what part will be right for them, they stand there at a loss, waiting to see what will happen, their instincts folded up like an umbrella, squirming, incoherent, reduced to themselves, that is, to nothing. Cows without a train.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Oamenii trec de la o comedie la alta. Între timp piesa nu e înc? montat?, nu-i discern contururile, rolul ce li se potriveÅŸte cel mai bine, ÅŸi-atunci stau aÅŸa, cu mâinile-n sân în faÅ£a evenimentului, cu instinctele repliate ca o umbrel?, cl?tinând din cap în ÅŸov?iala lor, reduÅŸi la a fi ei înÅŸiÅŸi, adic? nimic. Cârpe pleoÅŸtite.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Poiché univa all'immaginazione la metodicità scientifica, era conscio del fatto che l'uomo moderno, quando non esistono leggi, tende costantemente a sfogare gli istinti più tenebrosi, che risalgono ai nostri scimmieschi, primitivi antenati, nella vita ordinaria, e nelle manifestazioni di culto.
~ Lovecraft, Howard Phillips
Dizem que a lei existe para contrariar a natureza. Se o Homem sempre seguisse seus instintos naturais e matasse, roubasse e passasse a mão na bunda do próximo sem qualquer punição, onde estaríamos? No Brasil, acertou.
~ Luis Fernando Veríssimo
The ancients had instincts and abilities that are lost to civilization today. Magic was real. It lived inside the shamans. Inside the priests. They passed it on from generation to generation. You have the dregs of that power in you. It it not the strength that it was, but you can access it. But to do so you must be willing to travel deep into your own darkness and be open to risk. To pull from the earth's energy.
~ M.J. Rose
You may have noticed that I called the Dijksterguis study a partial answer to the question of when to draw on our instincts and when to rely on conscious analysis. The truth it that this is not a question that I - or anyone else, for that matter - can answer definitively. It's just too complicated. The best we can do, I think, is try to puzzle out the right mix of conscious and unconscious analysis on a case-by-base basis.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
When should we trust our instincts, and when should we consciously think things through? Well, here is a partial answer. On straightforward choices, deliberate analysis is best. When questions of analysis and personal choice start to get complicated—when we have to juggle many different variables—then our unconscious thought processes may be superior.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
~ Charles Darwin
It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
~ Julien Benda
And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized, live a more richly perfumed and intoxication life, instead of transmuting into thoughts, words, into exquisite abstractions, mathematics of emotion in place of violent impact, the volcanic eruptions of fever, lust and delight.
~ Anais Nin
Hell is a different place for each man, or each man has his own particular hell. My descent into the inferno is a descent into the irrational level of existence, where the instincts and blind emotions are loose, where one lives by pure impulse, pure fantasy, and therefore pure madness. No, that is not the inferno.
~ Anais Nin
Behind my romanticism lies a primitive woman with primitive hungers.
~ Anais Nin