#instinct

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story. ↗

— Ang Lee

#close #could #couple #first #function

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

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For me, that's natural. The instinct to score comes naturally and if you have it, you've got to go to it. ↗

— Reggie Lewis

#go #got #instinct #me #natural

Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#bumps #every #exception #i #instinct

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. ↗

— Don Marquis

#ideas #instinct #loads #pull #trigger

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

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I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

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The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#attacks #embody #fort #hood #human

The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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