#instinct

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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But death's acquisitive instincts will win. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

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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

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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

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As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both. ↗

— Bono

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Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

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Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

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Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#audience #concert #instinct #into #me

There is no instinct like that of the heart. ↗

— Lord Byron

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