#instinct

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#style

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#arises #builder #enhancing #instinct #must

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#i #instinctive #try #want #writer

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama. ↗

— George P. Baker

#ages #back #barbarism #civilization #drama

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#i #instinct #question #should #think

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

#i #instinct #man #rather #reason

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor. ↗

— Alan Bates

#emotional #instinctive #more #performance #usually

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

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody. ↗

— Bjork

#any #bore #death #feminists #follow

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do. ↗

— Cheryl Tiegs

#doing #first #i #instinct #jealousy