#innate

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#clearly #environment #exciting #gift #individual

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need. ↗

— Harvey Cox

#done #else #hear #human #human beings

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects. ↗

— Ashton Eaton

#aspects #challenge #competed #competitive #ever

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact. ↗

— Jim Goad

#biological #caused #exploit #fact #how

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#actually #always #american #attitude #believe

Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated--for good or ill--if only you find the right levers. ~ Levitt & Dubner, "Superfreakonomics ↗

— Levitt & Dubner

#incentives #innate #people #nature

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#brain #count #easiest #fact #how

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us. ↗

— Brian Behlendorf

#goodness #how #i #i think #innate

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that. ↗

— Nina Blackwood

#always #biographies #i #innate #interest

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us. ↗

— Omar Epps

#another #another man #beginning #bet #boxing