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Quotes About Instinctual

Any time you've played different sports - for me, it has always been basketball; that is an instinctual sport. You're dribbling the ball, passing. I'm sure that has helped me a lot along the line with helping with my football instincts.
~ Nick Foles
There's instinctual discomfort about using evidence of past immunity as a factor for decisions about health, work or even questions like whether it's safe to visit someone in a nursing home. But there are ways to deploy immunity information to help us understand our own health status and keep us safer from Covid, without surrendering privacy.
~ Scott Gottlieb
It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.
~ Conway Twitty
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
~ A Bartlett Giamatti
I'm an instinctual actor. I don't really talk about it. Usually if I get a script and I'm having trouble with it, I go to sleep and I dream about it because I'm super internal with the way I work.
~ Megyn Price
Apparently an aesthetic sense is instinctual. Just as the beauty of a rose exceeds its function in attracting insects to spread pollen, so human skill always flowers in excess, producing beauty beyond need. Nature is not hardheaded, hardhearted, mechanical, pratical, or economical. Neither are we. Our simplest and most practical acts, including the use of language, are likely to be infused with grace and elaboration wich utilitarian purposes cannot explain
~ Judson Jerome
To persuade the consumer, the creators of ads needed to touch people's basic, unchanging instincts—their "obsessive drive to survive, to be admired, to succeed, to love, to take care of their own.
~ Doris Willens
I'd call my work 'instinctual design.' I like to find the spirit of a piece that defies time, age, and occasion. My clothes give the wearer the chance to develop their own voice within a wardrobe, and I think of them as curators of their personal style.
~ Chris Benz
To sublime: to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state. To sublimate: to divert the expression of an instinctual desire or impulse from its primitive form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable. Sublime: of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth.
~ Rachel Klein
Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.
~ John Gay
I've never been to acting classes or anything like that. Everything I do is quite instinctual.
~ Maia Mitchell
I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.
~ Paloma Picasso
For Lily, isolation was an important tool for grieving, as it brought harmony to her inner and outer realities. She instinctually knew this, and she also knew that getting back out there was premature for her. And she knew the time would come.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous.
~ Alyssa Milano
I've come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they live in.
~ Megan Abbott
Strange, how the body knows instinctually to protect itself. Eyes blinking before the blast of sand. Arm rising before the blow. The will to survive is not a conscious choice, but encoded in every cell. The body acts to defend and protect itself even against one's own mind.
~ An Na
Captain, Cardassians come into this life with an awareness of their protected perimeters—what the doctor calls our 'reptilian brain dominance'—and die defending them." The
~ Andrew J. Robinson
The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous.
~ Alyssa Milano
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
~ A. Bartlett Giamatti
The amygdala also helps mediate both innate and learned fear.18 The core of innate fear (aka a phobia) is that you don't have to learn by trial and error that something is aversive. For example, a rat born in a lab, who has interacted only with other rats and grad students, instinctually fears and avoids the smell of cats.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
The lust for murder is not a rational thing. In queens, it is an instinctual response.
~ Laurie R. King
What suckling craved the creature, born full-fanged?
~ Aeschylus
I believe that the vividness experienced in the reading of words is automatically modulated by the constant activation of the reasoning centers of the brain that are used in the process of cocreating the representation of reality the author has intended. By contrast, the visceral vividness portrayed on television has the capacity to trigger instinctual responses similar to those triggered by reality itself -- and without being modulated by logic, reason, and reflective thought.
~ Al Gore
In the Ramayana, Rakshasas represent a way of life where all behaviour is instinctual and self-indulgent, governed by fear and insecurity. Rishis represent the opposite way of life, where all instincts, be they sexual or violent, are regulated for the benefit of the world. Ram
~ Devdutt Pattanaik