#innate

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

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

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

— Nina Blackwood

#always #biographies #i #innate #interest

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#constitutes #culture #disposition #independent #innate

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. ↗

— Diana Vreeland

#dressed #elegance #innate #nothing #refusal

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#being #focal #focal point #innately #lifestyle

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#divinity #enlightenment #everyone #follow #here

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#amazingly #argue #because #behavior #capable

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work. ↗

— Lori Greiner

#i #innate #instinct #knowing #work