#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

Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#attacking #cavalry #course #enemy #every

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#acting #animal #aware #become #i

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

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. ↗

— E. B. White

#change #common #instinctively #long #long run

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

— Thomas Mann

#instinct #literature #suffering #union

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is! ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#another #basic #crying #debris #embrace

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

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate? ↗

— Morley Safer

#caring #compassionate #considered #defective #does