“I can't compare my life growing up in Leimert Park to someone in Imperial Village Projects; we don't have the same options and I understand that. You do what you do based on survival and instincts. If I know something, I try to share it and give that opportunity and enlightenment to whomever I'm around, some people might not want to hear it but once you know something, you have the option to do better.” PeopleGivingTryingOpportunityGrowing UpShareSurvivalEnlightenmentInstinctCompare Author:Dom Kennedy
“I'm naturally a graceful human being. So meditation helps me stay grounded. When we're silent for a moment, it helps us to hear the hum of the universe. Hear the message or what the universe is trying to tell you. It's your inner voice and instinct. If you're hearing that, then you're in the flow of things. It takes years to try and trust that.” TryingMomentsHelpingUniverseMeditationSilentInstinctHelp MeInner Voice Author:Giancarlo Esposito
“It is really something, the extent to which we allow ourselves to live without thinking of things that we know, in the abstract, are bad, and are going on right now, somewhere far away. We think, "Well, what are you gonna do?" In a way, that little instinct, that "What are you gonna do?" is the most dangerous thing in the world.” ThinkingWorldDangerousInstinctAbstractFar Away Author:Ben H. Winters
“Whenever I've gone against my instincts, it's been a bit of a disaster. If there's a script I'm considering, I will get everyone to read it. I will get my mom to read it, I will get my friends to read it, I'll get the person doing my manicure to read it. I'm someone who really needs to talk things through. And then, obviously, I have a wonderful manager and agents, and I listen very carefully to what they have to say as well.” WonderfulMomInstinctMy MomDisaster Author:Emma Watson
“The "natural" instincts when someone is going through a breakup are counterintuitive to healing. For instance, many people stop eating or eat very unhealthy, and if your body is not fed the necessary nutrients during this trying time, it's extremely difficult for you to heal emotionally. So, first things first, force yourself to eat, even if that entails drinking green smoothies so you're getting nutrients in your body.” PeopleTryingDifficultNaturalHealingEatingDrinkingInstinctHealBreakup Author:Amy Chan
“I don't follow trends - it's more of an instinct thing. Honestly, I'm kind of my own worst client. I wake up and go, "I have nothing to wear!" But that's what makes it interesting. I ask, what would make me feel good? I think it's a constant challenge because clothes are so personal. For me, my clothes are related to my mood. If I feel like I'm not wearing the right thing, I don't feel confident. I think it's in everybody's psyche.” ThinkingKindChallengesInterestingWorstWake UpInstinctHonestlyMoodFeel GoodRight Thing Author:Maria Cornejo
“I know Donald Trump as a very adaptive person. In my nearly three and a half decades of being in the military, I've had maybe one, maybe two guys that I've worked for that were that adaptive in combat. He adapts to the great challenges, with his own sort of street smarts and his instincts.” GuyChallengesMilitarySmartInstinct Author:Michael T. Flynn
“Nature is so huge. I mean, you can't even look one way! Everything is huge. That was my natural instinct, to create huge art, to create huge pieces. And to me, I still could create bigger works. The opportunity doesn't come along to do anything any bigger. So I've worked as big as I've had the opportunity to work, basically.” MeanArtOpportunityNaturalInstinct Author:Willie Herron
“I think that there's an idea in 2016 that if a woman doesn't have it all then she's lacking in some way, and I think that 'having it all' is the kid, the relationship and the career, and that seems horribly skewed. I get genuinely excited when I meet women - or men - who don't want to have children. It's refreshing and unusual and means they're not swayed by what society has told them, they're just listening to their own basic instincts. I love meeting people who are fulfilled by other things. I think, 'lucky old you' when I meet someone single.” PeopleThinkingMenMeanChildrenKidsListeningMeetingsInstinctExcitedUnusualJust Listen Author:Sharon Horgan
“With acting, I started as a kid and it was my safe space and the place where I felt the most free to be all of myself. What gets explored in our show is where that instinct starts and where it meets with career, and how that can change your path a bit.” KidsActingPathInstinct Author:Ari Graynor
“When you're working on a scene, both in the script phase and also in the moment, you look around and you wait for the lightning bolt to strike you and based on your instincts tell you what the right thing to do is here. And that can result in anything from a change of dialogue to the realisation that what you thought was a dramatic scene should actually have some humour. And maybe if you stage it this way it's funnier, or if you put the camera here it tells a different story. That stuff is kind of everything when you're a director.” KindDifferentMomentsWaitingHumourSceneInstinctDialogueDramaticRight ThingRealisation Author:Alex Kurtzman
“I'm as flighty as anybody. You put a lot out there. I've been through the process a lot. When I play a major role, it's my instinct to create a nice atmosphere. People in the major roles dominate the tone of an entire film. To my mind, it's much easier to work creatively when everyone's friendly.” PeopleMindFilmNiceInstinctAtmosphereFriendly Author:John Lithgow
“People sometimes ask: Is Putin a clever man? Yes, he's clever in his own way, when it comes to political intrigue, and he's got a good head for numbers. But as soon as he took office, the first thing he did was to institute a new anthem based on the old Soviet one; that was a very major step, not a petty issue. He began at once to appeal to people's basest instincts. It is true that people in Russia are used to obedience.” PeopleMenSometimesPoliticalOfficeInstinctCleverObedienceSovietAnthem Author:Vladimir Voinovich
“One is that I'm really interested in movies about sex and lust, because I think those are primal, carnal instincts that translate well to a visual medium. Two, these things that I write, or want to make, are an expression of - I don't want to say darker instincts, but let's say darker instincts. But that's why I'm a writer.” ThinkingWritingInstinctLustTranslate Author:Liz W. Garcia
“I don't personally do that many castings. But I did get involved in "The Bad Batch," because we couldn't think of an actress that was a 3-D embodiment of the character. But when I saw Suki Waterhouse on tape, I knew she was 'it.' And I can't describe that any more than to say that I never had to really express to her the the ideas that were on the page, she just instinctively embraced it. She was Arlen, and I didn't want to f**k it up. Her instinct was just it.” ThinkingCharacterInstinctGet Involved Author:Ana Lily Amirpour
“Studios are attracted by making money, and they're also trying to simplify things, going with the genre thing. The gambling instincts of a few years ago where you might make some thousands or a few hundred, it's nothing now.” TryingInstinctMaking MoneySimplify Author:Peter Weir
“Any art that you are playing based on effort, loses something. I think that most of the time it should be something that happens, and you are inspired, and you just feel and follow your instincts. The best chiseled sculptures happen when the sculptor looks at the stone and says "I saw this sculpture in the stone, and I had to get it out." It's not contrived.” ThinkingArtEffortInstinctInspired Author:Patrick Stump
“I think I sing with more emotion but with less technical perfection. I prefer to sing with my natural voice and use my instinct - it's easier for me to give emotion.” ThinkingGivingNaturalEmotionPerfectionInstinct Author:Amaury Vassili
“Your body, which is very physical, is under the influence of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your dreams, your fantasies, your desires, your instincts, your drives, your imagination. All these things orchestrate themselves - all these internal activities that are in the invisible domain that we call consciousness actually have very precise physical effects both in our biology, but they also influence our perception of the world.” WorldFeelingsDreamDesireImaginationEmotionConsciousnessFantasyInfluencePerceptionInstinctInvisibleBiology Author:Deepak Chopra
“Pay real attention to your basic human instincts when you face gray area decisions, but also try to have a clear sense of when you have done all you can reasonably do.” TryingRealDoneDecisionAttentionInstinct Author:Joseph Badaracco
“You have to go with your instincts. I remember when I was about to make "Fistful of Dollars" a big article came out that said, "Italian Westerns are finished." I said, "Swell." Then, of course, the film came out, and it did something. I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way.” RememberFilmInstinctGladItalianRemember When Author:Clint Eastwood
“We are like a rider on top of a gigantic elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll go where we want, but if he has other desires, he'll often go where he wants. How can one control the elephant? In part, this comes with maturity. In part, this comes with the development of your frontal cortex, so the frontal areas of the brain are especially involved in self-control, in suppressing your initial instinct to act. This is why teenagers are so impulsive. So it's terrible to allow the death penalty for teenagers, because they really don't have working brains yet.” DesireBrainTerribleInstinctBusyTeenagerMaturityDeath PenaltyImpulsive Author:Jonathan Haidt
“When I first started out in my career, I'd been a lit major in college so I didn't have a lot of choices. The traditional options were management consultant or investment banking, and I hadn't even taken an economics class so those were pretty much out. I didn't want to go into academia. For me, research and instinct were my unique tools that seemed to work best on a marketing and merchandizing path. It's kind of right-brain and left-brain.” KindChoicesPathTakenCollegeUniqueManagementInstinctInvestmentMarketingLit Author:Maureen Chiquet
“My instinct tells me "purpose" is maybe the enemy of a good personal essay. In my own experience, I'm always lost and wandering and searching - where am I? how'd I get in this mess? what's the point? - right through to the final draft, and sometimes even beyond that - baffled and defeated still, confused as to purpose long after the thing's in print. I never really have a guiding purpose or a point, not at the outset, anyway. It's like life: It's all discovered en route.” LongSometimesPurposeEnemyInstinctWanderMessConfusedPrintDefeatedEssaysGood Person Author:Charles D'Ambrosio
“My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.” NextNaturalDarkStreetsInstinctGlassesNeighborhoodBoastCountyShamefulNatural InstinctDark Glasses Author:Russell Baker
“When you're writing a 25-minute episode that can be anything, sometimes you just start with a character, and you let them walk into the room. Then you let your instinct guide you. That's how we made art when we were 15 years old. And that's so fun to us.” WritingArtSometimesCharacterFunInstinct Author:Mark Duplass
“We say we embrace humanity, but what does that mean? We are all defined by our limits, so to what extent can we embrace all this? Because we all contain within ourselves equally the capacity for kindness, as much as for cruelty or evil. And the best of us are able to suppress those baser impulses, instincts. That's the war within.” MeanWarHumanityEvilKindnessEmbraceInstinctCrueltyImpulse Author:Todd Solondz
“It's a complex thing when you're writing a novel, because so much of it is conscious and planned and deliberate, and so much of it is not, and it has to be a dance between the conscious and the unconscious. I bring my best instincts to my work. For instance - and I come by this naturally, or I think I do - I am a very good judge of character.” ThinkingWritingCharacterNovelJudgingConsciousInstinctVery GoodUnconscious Author:Benjamin Alire Saenz
“I had been a storyteller by instinct all my life. I was that boring little kid who made the rest of his friends sit around the campfire and listen to his ghost stories. It's been very much a part of my makeup.” KidsInstinctBoringGhostMakeupStorytellerLittle KidCampfire Author:Armistead Maupin
“We are not held accountable for how the economy ravages Congo. Governments aren't held accountable for foreign policies that they exercise there. There are no institutional structures to render justice. The press is very limited. There's very little transparency. You find a symmetry in certain basic human tendencies, and these tendencies are not always noble or beautiful. I think we have an instinct to turn away from that, to not acknowledge it, while it is something that's a part of us. There's a certain tragic and sad side to human nature that, in our quest for beauty, we ignore.” ThinkingBeautifulJusticeEconomyHuman NaturePolicyExerciseInstinctAcknowledgeTragicForeign PolicyTransparencyCongoSymmetry Author:Anjan Sundaram
“I need to trust myself and go where my instincts tell me, and to be as wild and free as possible in my creative decisions.” DecisionCreativeInstinct Author:Joshua Oppenheimer
“If there is any person that I do follow somewhat closely, at least ideas I like, it's been Frederich Nietzsche, but he's been dead a few hundred years. And at the same time, I wouldn't say that I actually, from a political standpoint, like many of his ideas. It just happened to be the core of a lot of my own beliefs of trying to modify my body and live indefinitely. What really applies is an evolutionary instinct to become a better entity altogether.” TryingPoliticalBeliefInstinct Author:Zoltan Istvan
“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!” MovingHopeChangeCryPossibilityEmbraceInstinctUpliftingThis LifeGloriousHopefulTidesDebrisTilt Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“I think boxing is a singular sport, because the stakes are so high and because it just appeals to people's primal instincts. It's a life and death sport, and it's a sport of sacrifice. It's a humbling sport, and people are coming from humbling circumstances. It's always fun to watch a person that's come from nothing to having everything and losing it again.” PeopleThinkingFunSportsSacrificeCircumstancesLosingInstinctBoxingLife And DeathHumbling Author:Aaron Eckhart
“You're taught that you need to please magazines, to please the fashion elite, and that if you do everything the right way, everyone is going to love you. But I decided not to follow some of the rules. My girls from the runway were not just models - they were soldiers. They helped me bring my ideas to life. I was talking about sexiness, about diversity, about different shapes of bodies. I was following my instincts and learning that it would not please the fashion elite. And I think this is the real luxury, to be free to express yourself. Freedom is luxury to me.” ThinkingDifferentRealGirlLove YouFashionDiversityInstinctSoldierExpress YourselfMy GirlSexiness Author:Olivier Rousteing
“I've learned that I am strong enough. When some people might have given up, I didn't. I found myself in situations where I had to make choices and I followed my instincts. You can't show people you're learning, because if you do, they will treat you like a kid. You have to grow up faster, not showing any fragility.” PeopleEnoughKidsChoicesStrongSituationGrowing UpInstinctStrong EnoughI Am Strong Author:Olivier Rousteing
“Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right. If they have a preconceived notion about the role and it goes against my instinct, unless it makes sense to me, it often throws off what I'm trying to do. Though sometimes they have an insight that I don't because they've been living with the script. I don't have one feeling or another about notes, but it is always a little bit of a red alert when I get one in an audition.” TryingSometimesFeelingsInstinctInsightMake SenseTrickyPreconceived Notions Author:Lance Reddick
“I think we all want to find the love of our life and live our fantasies. What art student hasn't used his art to get girls? What journalists or actors haven't used their craft as well? It's a very human instinct to pursue.” ThinkingArtGirlFantasyStudentsInstinctJournalist Author:Max Minghella
“My business savvy it’s instinct. Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it’s a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it’s wrong.” FeelingsMistakeInstinctIntuitionGutsSavvy Author:Tamara Mellon
“I try to follow my instinct as a moviegoer and I do the thing I would love to see it at a movie. I'm like everyone, almost, I go to a movie once a week. I like every kind of film if it’s well made. I’m fine. I’m not a specialist fighting for a genre of film. You just have to follow your instinct.” TryingKindFilmFightingWeekInstinct Author:Luc Besson
“I've never been trained as an actress, so it's all instinct. I just let myself go into this kind of a free fall. Sometimes I feel scared, or out of my element - like everyone else knows what they're doing but me. I don't know . . . Maybe I function well with fear or I like to be faced with a challenge . . . I think I'm just a work in progress.” ThinkingKindSometimesFallChallengesProgressInstinctScaredWork In Progress Author:January Jones
“What I love about comedians is their instinct is always to go against the grain. Their whole existence is pointing out the elephant in the room. Already you can see audiences are pushing back, but we're the ones who really can take it more than anybody.” ExistenceAudienceInstinctComedianGrainPointing Author:Colin Quinn
“I was an English major in college, I went to a creative-writing program, and all my life, I really read and thought about fiction as a craft and an art form. I feel like I know a lot about it, and can trust my instincts.” ArtCollegeProgramInstinctEnglish Major Author:Tom Perrotta
“Today, entrepreneurs are at the forefront of a new era in which organizations put talent at the heart of their business models. And they have no choice. Having grown up surrounded by entrepreneurial freedoms, workers expect flexibility. They insist on collaboration. They demand meaning. Creating an environment that brings out the entrepreneurial instincts in your workforce - a worldview we might call "employeeship"- is key.” HeartTodayChoicesEnvironmentTalentEntrepreneurInstinctCollaborationFlexibilityWorldviewEntrepreneurial Author:Linda Rottenberg
“It's important for me to really play with the traditions and keep things simple and easy. Ultimately I believe in animal instincts - I think they often end up winning out.” ThinkingBelieveImportantWinningI BelieveEasySimpleAnimalTraditionInstinct Author:Peter Dundas
“Prayer and encouraging words change things. We're all human. We all go through stuff. The hardest part about being a celebrity is having to heal on a public stage. That's the worst. Imagine going through a scandal, or a divorce, or a death in the family, and running into fans on the street. Because of where my heart is, my instinct is to put my sadness aside, and give them a smile or a hug, no matter how bad I'm feeling. And the appreciation of fans can refuel your spiritual tank in those situations. But until you're famous, people don't realize how difficult that is.” PeopleGivingHeartFeelingsRunningSpiritualDifficultRealizingPrayerSituationImagineSadnessWorstMy HeartInstinctAppreciationDivorceHealHug Author:Al B. Sure!
“Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with the fear.” TrainInstinctHungerHungryI Have LearnedYou Like It Author:Shirin Ebadi
“It's gut instinct that helps me determine how to write a story. I love the surreal because I am faced with the challenge of making the unbelievable believable. That challenge is thrilling.” WritingHelpingChallengesInstinctDetermineHelp MeGutsUnbelievableSurreal Author:Roxane Gay
“I've been told throughout my career that I have good instincts, and the idea of discovery and development in terms of a new artist is so exciting to me. Being only 25 and in a position where I might be able to grant opportunities is really cool.” ArtistOpportunityTermExcitingInstinctReally Cool Author:Louis Tomlinson
“Abraham Lincoln did have intellectual instincts, a tremendous curiosity on a broad range of subjects, and a near-photographic memory for what he read. He was, at the end of the day, a politician: politics were his heaven, said William Herndon. But Lincoln did take comfort in ideas and books, more so than almost any other president, and he went to books and ideas in moments of perplexity to sort things out. Philosopher, no, but thoughtful and "surprisingly well-read" for his day.” BookMomentsHeavenPresidentMemoriesPoliticianComfortIntellectualInstinctCuriosityPhilosopherThoughtful Author:Allen C. Guelzo