#instincts

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. ↗

— Michael Burke

#instincts #life #life

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow. ↗

— Agnetha Faltskog

#behind #child #cut #even #feeling

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

— Lindsey Buckingham

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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

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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

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You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

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I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#did #different #dream #got #i

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#believe #civilization #cost #created #exigencies

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight. ↗

— Peggy Fleming

#did #down #draw #fight #going

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#basic #bathing #been #being #childhood