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Instinct Quotes
"My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions."
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"I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here."
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"Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form."
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"When instinct speaks, listen to it. It might be the next push you need to reach greater heights."
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"A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story."
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"Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls."
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"Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct."
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"Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff."
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"I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!"
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"When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace."
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"The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers."
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"I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go,' and I went."
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"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."
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"There must be instinct on d inside to have an increase on d outside."
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"Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning."
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"A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct."
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"He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is."
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"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."
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"You have put yourself at risk to activate your instinctual genius."
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"I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that."
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"Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better."
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"Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. For one thing, the empathic faculty probably required an unimpaired group instinct; a solitary organism, such as a spider, would have no use for it; in fact it would tend to abort a spider's ability to survive. It would make him conscious of the desire to live on the part of his prey. Hence all predators, even highly developed mammals such as cats, would starve."
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"The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat."
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"A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy."
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"One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else."
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"If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale."
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"A wolf's thoughts are seldom far from its appetite."
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"Leap out the window, my inner Tigress cried. You aren't ready to face such a powerful Tiger. I frowned. I thought a true Tigress never backed down from a fight. Don't you know anything? When she's in heat, she avoids everything male. Now run!"
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"The Artificial's speech pattern was an idiosyncratic mix of awkward and colloquial. It was unexpectedly endearing. "I just have good instincts. Mostly I love being in space. But you are not 'in' space. You are in your starship and your starship is in space. It is not so different than being on a planet. "Oh, Valkyrie, you have no idea. Tell me then."
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