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Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.
Men have to stay strong. 'They fight, it's normal. Females don't have that instinct.
There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over.
The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body.
Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.
It's difficult to articulate how I know it's the right actor, but I do. It's instinct. Intuition.
Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.
All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.
One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.
I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.
I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
As humans, our instinct is to be free. And any sort of restrictions don't help.
My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.
I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.
If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.
I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.
In the car it is really good to have a killer instinct where you need to be aggressive.
It fascinates me that there's this instinct to blame something else when you're embarrassed or caught.
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.
My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.
What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
I'm very impulsive and I always had a belief in instinct leading the way.
The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.
The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It’s an animalistic instinct for survival.
I strongly believe that many of the best decisions are made on gut instinct.
The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.
A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.
Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters.
Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.
I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.
My killer instinct is so strong that lions call me to take lessons.
The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.
If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.
... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.
I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.
Gangbanging is a survival instinct, regardless of how anybody tries to paint it.
The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.
You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.
I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.
The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.
Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.
It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.
A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
