#instinct

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. ↗

— William Gibson

#blue eyes #certainty #directly #even #exceedingly

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#before #blow #come #date #derived

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that. ↗

— Jennifer Capriati

#before #had #hit #i #instinct

I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#confident #i #instincts #learned #more

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#body #instinctively #knows #less #medicine

All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead. ↗

— Will Ferrell

#answer #comedy #funny #general #going

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#authenticity #desire #hard #hard times #instinctive

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight. ↗

— Will Ferrell

#approach #comedy #commit #doing #drama

Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#against #blind #both #determined #historian

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#always #being #bravery #courage #cunning