#instinct

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ↗

— George Orwell

#between #clear #declared #enemy #exhausted

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#dissolved #divine #genius #her #hollywood

Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#follow #instincts #opinion #other #people

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#bravery #courage #higher #instinct #moral

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#application #art #beauty #beyond #brain

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#father #fortunate #gambling #gene #gift

Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#attacking #cavalry #course #enemy #every

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#acting #animal #aware #become #i

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. ↗

— E. B. White

#change #common #instinctively #long #long run

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#instinct #own #power #underestimate #you