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“The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.”

Science Powerful Effects Skills Instinct Agents Insects Brutes

Book:Opticks, Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light

Source: Opticks, Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light

“The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities, which they relish both from appetite and from the challenge these offer to skill in competition with popular art.”

Men Art Artist Lost Challenges Awareness Taste Offers Skills Competition Instinct Simplicity Appetite Relish

Author:Jacques Barzun

“A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against.”

Reason Use Able Sides Successful Politician Skills Logic Moved Instinct Mood

Author:Jean Chretien

“Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.”

Giving Skills Instinct

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“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.”

“In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat - walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial.”

Art Feelings Memories Theory Walking Skills Discovery Instinct Details Enormous Denial Speculation Psychiatry Seriousness Psychoanalysis Unyielding

Author:Judith Perelman Rossner

“The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.”

“The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.”

Culture Process Creative Skills Instinct Creative Process Cocktails

Author:Francis Bacon

“The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a stand-up comedian has a different instinct, which is to reinvent. Once you've laid down some material, and made them laugh, you move on and find some new material.”

Made Different Moments Seems Moving Actors Laughing Materials Like You Skills Instinct Comedian Spontaneous Good Actors Stand Up Comedian

Author:Colin Firth

“doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct”

Doubt Skills Instinct Contrast Credulity

Author:Kathryn Schulz