#instinct

I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life! ↗

— Liz Phair

#be nice #else #i #instincts #life

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. ↗

— Herbert Read

#analogous #appetites #assumption #being #digestions

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#head #how #i #i think #instinctive

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#creative #equipment #force #gut #instinct

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#ear #feeling #instinct #life #like

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. ↗

— Anais Nin

#believe #choose #compels #courage #deeper

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#instinct #literature #suffering #union

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#acting #become #best #careers #directors

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#celebrates #common #common ground #diversity #ground

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#fear #ferocity #herd #instinct #members