#instinct

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. ↗

— Jose Marti

#death #glory #innate #insatiable #instinct

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#branches #grow #instinct #just #must

I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it's just kind of more instinctive. But I don't have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally. ↗

— Rose McGowan

#acting #back #background #big #characters

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#governments #instincts #make #masses #name

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using. ↗

— Donna Mills

#close #doing #gear #how #i

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary. ↗

— Francis W. Newman

#consists #continuous #gentle #instincts #man

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#best #feel #instinctively #just #need

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks. ↗

— Emil Nolde

#best #breathes #him #instinctively #know

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