#instinct

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form. ↗

— Hart Crane

#assured #been #deal #difficult #energy

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#drunk #facts #fighting #ignorant #instincts

Reason is the servant of instinct. ↗

— Clarence Day

#reason #servant

Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too. ↗

— Albert Finney

#artist #because #good #got #her

When I found Jesus Christ, I learned to be a better athlete. I didn't have to go out there and knock them out in the first round. I've learned to be patient, skillful in the ring. At the same time, I wanted to prove to other boxers that you can take off this killer instinct stuff, you can be a great athlete, a great boxer, and love your brother. ↗

— George Foreman

#be patient #better #boxer #boxers #brother

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#call #each #expression #guided #i

I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women. ↗

— Vera Wang

#designing #end #few #few women #frustrated

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#back #century #choice #fiction #follow

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#acting #any #based #i #instinctively

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#else #instead #instinct #might #mistakes