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“Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.”

Men Horse Instinct Gambling Betting Horse Sense

Source: Three by Tey

“The most savage and voracious animal never kills to increase his wealth, or open a way to grandeur. It slays to satisfy his hunger, or in a natural defense of his own life, or of those whom he is prompted by instinct to preserve.”

Way Natural Wealth Animal Crime Increase Murder Instinct Hunger Defense Preserves Savages Grandeur

Author:Mary Collyer

“Yes, the investor is often his own worst enemy. Yes, the marketing colossus known as the mutual fund industry provides the weaponry which enables investors to indulge their suicidal instincts. No, the fund industry was hardly an innocent bystander in the market boom and the subsequent carnage. "We have met the enemy and he is us"... all of us.”

Known Enemy Worst Industry Mets Instinct Marketing Innocent Fund Mutual Investors Suicidal Indulge Worst Enemy Bystanders Carnage Weaponry Mutual Fund Colossus

Author:John C. Bogle

“there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep one of these in his ranks, because its instinct is always toward revolt against authority. One such camel will sometimes break up the discipline of a whole train, for, owing to the mass mentality of the herd, even peaceful beasts are suddenly infected with the spirit of revolt and in a few minutes the whole caravan is in utter disorder.”

Humans Sometimes Whole Spirit Quality Leader Break Minutes Discipline Authority Mass Train Instinct Peaceful Revolutionary Beast Disorder Mentality Herds Revolt Camels Owing Caravans

Author:Mildred Cable

“You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.”

Acting Emotion Quality Judgment Instinct Storytelling Trust Your Instincts

Author:Jean-Marc Vallee

“You have to trust your instincts and hope the fans like what you do, but you don't gut check with the fans. If we're going to make a series, people are going to have a lot of opinions and if there's one overwhelming majority or one thing you continuously hear repeated from the fans, you certainly take that into account going into next season.”

People Ifs Next Opinion One Thing Fans Seasons Accounts Majority Series Instinct Checks Guts Overwhelming Trust Your Instincts

Author:Eli Roth

“I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing. So what I know about writing, I know from my own instincts, and whatever the narrative voice is in my own head.”

Knows World Writing Has Beens School Voice My Own College Majors Training Instinct Medical Backgrounds Narrative Biology Formal Medical School Narrative Voice

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.”

Knows Way Writing Kind Stories Know How Grew Grew Up Instinct Setting Storytelling Settings Default

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.”

Kind Common Principles Instinct Common Sense

Author:Tom Stoppard

“There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.”

“The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to control (or dominate) the instincts of his physical nature, the more his character, by rising above material contingencies, widen, become free and independent.”

Men Self Character Successful Materials Independent Instinct Individuality Rising Coming Out Rise Above Contingency

Author:African Spir

“When under the influence of certain (or some) reasons (or causes) (alcohol, war, etc - added Spir here) the low instincts are unbridled (or unrestrained), the brute appears (or come forward, "apparait", Fr.) and rule over (or dominate), stifling every ("toute", Fr.) noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin (or downfall or decline) of any humanity in man.”

Men War Reason Certain Humanity Causes Influence Lows Instinct Noble Alcohol Ruins Impulse Generous Etc Decline Brutes Downfall Stifling

Author:African Spir

“Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll have a panic attack. Inside is where safety is.”

World Certain Anxiety Safety Instinct Panic Inward Pulling Temperament Panic Attacks

Author:Aimee Liu

“There may never be a baby book that offers the conclusive answer to every question, but it's possible to extract some wisdom from the suffering of past generations of parents. Does the book you're reading contradict itself repeatedly, require you to override all your parental instincts, or send you into a panic over your own inadequacy? If so, burn it.”

Ifs May Doe Book Past Suffering Reading Parent Answers Generations Baby Offers Instinct Over You Panic Parental Inadequacy Past Generations

Author:Libby Copeland

“Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.”

People Heart Bigs Happens Pride Mountain Ambition Judgment Instinct Clouds Accidents Climbing Good Judgment

Author:Bear Grylls

“We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.”

Stuff Teach Instinct Work Out Who I Am Triumph Bullets I Am Who I Am Trust Your Instincts

Author:Aimee Mullins

“If youre serious about what youre doing, youve got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you wont reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back.”

Ifs Serious Instinct Height Dizzy

Author:Jonny Lee Miller

“It's not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody's an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton's an actor, which is kind of scary. But if you want to honor your craft and yourself, strive for the nobler instincts.”

Ifs Knows Want Kind Mean Said Actors Easy Honor Instinct Strive Scary Crafts Paris Do You Know

Author:Patti LuPone

“If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.”

Ifs Reason Ought Instinct Envy Guides Sensuality Brutes

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.”

Humans Art Reason Animal Instinct Imitation Borrowed Human Reason

Book:The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: the vanity of human wished: The History of Solÿman and Almena by John Langhorne

Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: the vanity of human wished: The History of Solÿman and Almena by John Langhorne

“I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.”

Thinking Actors Feet Training Instinct Instance Good Actors Gary

Author:Glenne Headly

“Survival is my primary instinct...it's out of my control. It's stronger than me. It's an outside force, a voice that says 'do this for your life or it will devour you.'”

Force Voice Survival Stronger Instinct Primaries

Author:Grace Jones

“The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And thats a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.”

Giving Trying Ideas My Own Giving Up Instinct Not Giving Up Keep Trying My Own Life Trust Your Instincts

Author:Callie Thorne

“All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.”

Firsts Movement Reflection Instinct Impulse Generous

Author:Aime Martin

“The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.”

Feelings Worry Source Disease Anxiety Fundamentals Instinct Manifestation Anguish Psychopathic

Book:The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases

Source: The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases

“Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.”

Humans Self Existence Depends Institutions Instinct Impulse Stability Associates Preservation Self Preservation

Author:Boris Sidis

“Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.”

Source: The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases

“In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.”

Home America Individual Sin Race Family Horror Destruction Slavery Instinct Shelter Savages Relentless Cardinals Race In America

Author:Fannie Barrier Williams

“What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world?”

World Way Self Home Natural Worst Produce Instinct Affection Seeking Manners Outcomes Self Respect Politeness Suppression Natural Instinct

Author:Humphry Davy

“Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts.”

Needs Real Force Activity Demand Instinct Foolish Advertising Goods Reluctant

Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters

“with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with the artistic instinct and everybody more or less writing poetry - California has a pageant for breakfast, a fiesta for luncheon and a carnival for dinner. They are always electing queens. In fact any girl in California who hasn't been a queen of something before she's twenty-one is a poor prune.”

“the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart.”

Heart Religion Found Struggle Constant Instinct Sexuality Doctrine Establishment Hideous Priesthood Clergy Celibacy Constant Struggle

Book:Woman's Place To-day: Four Lectures, in Reply to the Lenten Lectures on

Source: Woman's Place To-day: Four Lectures, in Reply to the Lenten Lectures on

“Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden. On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy. On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to 'drag life's lengthening chain along.”

Feels Made Form Easy Silence Pride Higher Calling Instinct Burden Pity Chains Beast Drag Womens Rights Complaints Assured Scorn Yoke Beast Of Burden

Author:Abby May Alcott

“It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.”

“I don’t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isn’t good, or isn’t useful for natural creative instincts”

Feels Kind Natural Race Creative Competition Instinct

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“Fortunately for me, its my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we dont have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.”

Thinking Country Age Young Player Taught Instinct Soccer Killers Other Countries Young Age Finishing Drills Soccer Player Killer Instinct Most Favorite

Author:Landon Donovan

“Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.”

Thinking Sometimes Instinct

Author:Bernardo Bertolucci

“The nobility of Teresa Leo's poems is that they are not disposed to hide from the dark-rather, they display a mind that tends toward obsession and brooding, that works against fatality like fingers at a knot. The firm, attentive mind on display and the lucid unfolding of the poems are the life instinct seeking and finding its way through again and again. Love and beauty are the argument, but they don't win easily. Bloom in Reverse works through elegy toward survival with moving persistence, both driven and compelling.”

“You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.”

Ifs Knows Pay Fiction Bills Instinct Fiction Writers

Author:Lorrie Moore

“It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.”

Mind Ideas Order Religious Instinct Denial Closets Affinity Helm Bashers

Author:Julian Sanchez

“The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.”

“I'm totally against women in combat, because we live in a culture and a society that imposes on every man the concept of women and children first...If you had a man and a woman trying to go through some dangerous woods, the man's instinct would be to protect the woman. Therefore you weaken the man.”

Ifs Men Trying Firsts Children Would Be Culture Sex Dangerous He Man Protect Concepts Instinct Woods Every Man Combat Women In Combat

Author:Grace Hopper

“Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.”

Needs Actors Sacrifice Discipline Instinct Dedication

Author:Matt Smith

“What I think after reading the script and seeing where the story goes, I go with my instincts on the character. If my instincts are wrong the director and the producers will guide me in the right direction. That's just kind of how I take on any role, be it a fantasy movie or not.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Character Stories Reading Roles Fantasy Seeing Directors Instinct Scripts Guides Producers Right Direction Guide Me

Author:Josh Hutcherson

“If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair, its this: Im not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.”

People Ifs One Thing Instinct British Embarrassed Blair

Author:William Hague

“Being "America's Sweetheart", that label gets put on a lot of people. I don't pay that much attention. And I'm not trying to shake anything. I'm just following my instincts and doing work that is coming to me and I'm just grateful for it.”

People Trying America Pay Attention Grateful Instinct Following Labels Shakes Sweetheart

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.”

Feels Left Process Brain Instinct Have Confidence Left Brain

Author:Tom Kenny

“The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.”

Firsts Findings Jokes Instinct Obligation Impulse Being Funny

Author:George Carlin

“You have to trust your instincts and know that the right question or the right answer will come to you. You don’t always have to have the solution to the problem; sometimes it’s very interesting to watch somebody go through the process of solving the problem, but it’s got to be truthful.”

Knows Sometimes Problem Process Answers Interesting Watches Solutions Instinct Truthful Very Interesting Being Truthful Right Answers Right Questions Trust Your Instincts

Author:Cat Deeley

“Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.”

People Giving Years Firsts Stories Audience Laughing Minutes Fronts Give Me Down And Instinct Kicks Editing Say Anything

Author:Steve Martin

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