#instinct

Instinct is untaught ability. ↗

— Alexander Bain

#instinct

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman. ↗

— Theda Bara

#every #flock #good #instinct #like

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#civilization #guided #human #instinct #longer

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. ↗

— Max Eastman

#instinct #pain #taking

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#always #best #candor #confidence #end

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk. ↗

— W. L. George

#capacity #cause #collar #connects #correlate

The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#big #big problem #biggest #certain #could

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate. ↗

— Dylan Moran

#anybody #candidate #foist #i #i think

Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#bludgeoning #instinct #just #more #precision

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#criminal-justice #detectives #evidence #facts #insight