#instinct

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#i #i can #instinctive #like #only

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#most #mothers #philosophers

When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better. ↗

— Didi Conn

#better #child #first #instinct #make

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#always #better #inherent #instinct #others

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#believe #born #created #desires #fundamentally

Fighting and writing’s deepest layers of beauty lie not only in the physical and mental realms of what we know, but also as an incognizable instinct, a realm we will never fully know but will forever feel. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#feelings #fighting #instinct #writing #beauty

My first inclination is to make my business all about me, but my second instinct is to make my business all about everyone else, because everyone else is where all the money is at. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#instinct #money #business

instinct leads me to another flow ↗

— Queen Latifah

#instinct #change

Change occurs at the edges, without permission. ↗

— Patti Digh

#instincts #permission #take-a-chance #change

Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed," he said. "And I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses." "Excuses, eh?" Well, if this ain't cynicism, what is?" Erens snorted. "Yes, excuses," he said, with what Erens thought might just have been a trace of bitterness. "I strongly suspect the things people believe in are usually just what they instinctively feel is right; the excuses, the justifications, the things you're supposed to argue about, come later. They're the least important part of the belief. That's why you can destroy them, win an argument, prove the other person wrong, and still they believe what they did in the first place." He looked at Erens. "You've attacked the wrong thing. ↗

— Iain M. Banks

#belief #erens #excuses #instinct #justifications