#instinct

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ↗

— George Orwell

#between #clear #declared #enemy #exhausted

When I found Jesus Christ, I learned to be a better athlete. I didn't have to go out there and knock them out in the first round. I've learned to be patient, skillful in the ring. At the same time, I wanted to prove to other boxers that you can take off this killer instinct stuff, you can be a great athlete, a great boxer, and love your brother. ↗

— George Foreman

#be patient #better #boxer #boxers #brother

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#call #each #expression #guided #i

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature. ↗

— Henry Cantwell Wallace

#crop #destroy #goes #human #human nature

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#dirty #first #gratify #instincts #long

For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#being #instinctive #me #mum #really

Stick to your instincts. ↗