#instinct

In the name of being social, we learn to ignore our natural instinct. Society keeps dictating do's and don'ts which we keep obeying day in and day out. ↗

— Chitralekha Paul

#society #writers #writing #nature

Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe. ↗

— Peggy O'Mara

#biological #child #children #instinct #mothering

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#another #give #hate #hatred #instinctive

When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices. ↗

— Martha Beck

#bank #brain #choices #entire #everything

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#instinct #nature #still #strongest

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. ↗

— Richard Branson

#creative #exercise #fun #instincts #involving

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form. ↗

— Hart Crane

#assured #been #deal #difficult #energy

Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too. ↗

— Albert Finney

#artist #because #good #got #her

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature. ↗

— Henry Cantwell Wallace

#crop #destroy #goes #human #human nature

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#dirty #first #gratify #instincts #long