#instinct

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#amateur #commercial #disadvantage #enthusiasm #fast

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#activity #ancient #certainly #himself #his

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#idiocy #instinctive #kind #liberals #life-threatening

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#always #fasten #hegemony #instincts #onto

I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character. ↗

— David Duchovny

#i #identify #instinctively #know

I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged. ↗

— Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

#believe #dimension #emerge #families #help

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive. ↗

— Julie Walters

#elusive #i #i think #instinct #learn

If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

#beating #boy #care #course #crippled

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts. ↗

— Omar Epps

#doubt #instincts #lot #make #tend

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. ↗

— Carl Jung

#acting #creation #creative #creative mind #inner