#instinct

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. ↗

— Paracelsus

#cases #composed #doubtful #ear #feeling

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds. ↗

— Anne Archer

#agents #business #even #go #instinct

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman. ↗

— Theda Bara

#every #flock #good #instinct #like

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#civilization #guided #human #instinct #longer

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. ↗

— Max Eastman

#instinct #pain #taking

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk. ↗

— W. L. George

#capacity #cause #collar #connects #correlate

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate. ↗

— Dylan Moran

#anybody #candidate #foist #i #i think

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. ↗

— Michael Burke

#instincts #life #life

Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize. ↗

— Valentine de Saint-Point

#her #instinct #intellect #made #mistake

When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#always #been #bring #close #fortunate