#instinct

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody. ↗

— Bjork

#any #bore #death #feminists #follow

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#followed #independently #instinct #reason #very

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. ↗

— Josh Billings

#common sense #enough #genius #instinct #sense

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do. ↗

— Cheryl Tiegs

#doing #first #i #instinct #jealousy

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. ↗

— Edgar R. Fiedler

#among #herd #independent #instinct #like

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up. ↗

— Evan Davis

#bad #bad news #bunch #competition #consumers

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively. ↗

— Evan Davis

#baggage #behavioural #beings #brain #bring

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet. ↗

— Julie Delpy

#comes #directing #here #i #i love

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#better #i #instinctively #knew #me

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#because #beings #come #doing #face