#instinct

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have. ↗

— Kit Williams

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I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

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I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

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The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror. ↗

— Sonya Levien

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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses. ↗

— Donna Murphy

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A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

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I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards. ↗

— Austin Peck

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I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative. ↗