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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
James Thurber
Knowledge
Man
Animals
Economics
Depend
Once
Laws
More
Road
Instinct
Powers
How
Reduced
His
Tragic
Than
Which
Them
Tobacco
Farce
Inherent
Reason
Level
Apply
Funnier
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Josh Billings
Genius
Sense
Enough
Instinct
Common
Common Sense
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
Lynn Abbey
Good
Enough
Background
Writer
Instinct
Just
Story
Sketching
Ground
Specific
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Max Beerbohm
Character
You
People
Genius
Men
Thinking
High
Trivial
Instinct
Judges
Up
Quick
Size
Blunt
Which
Deep
Imagining
Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.
Michael Shermer
Live
Evolution
Instinct
Mammals
Survive
Die
Afraid
Want
Reproduce
To Survive
Sentient
Us
Beings
Flourish
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
Beast
Stage
Our
Guided
Scarcely
Civilization
Instinct
Longer
Still
Human
Middle
Reason
Wholly
One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made.
Aaron Patzer
Alone
You
People
Worth
Feedback
Made
Market
Everyone
Top
Tell
Runs
About
Someone
Steal
Entrepreneurs
Idea
Ideal
Instinct
Ideas
Know
Most
Execution
Because
Very
Contrary
Going
Afraid
Tips
Little
Your
Aspiring
Companies
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
Adam Hochschild
Tribal
Think
Almost
Almost All
Instinct
Aroused
Makes
Very
Susceptible
Human
Buried
Being
Human Beings
Patriotic
Us
Beings
Profound
When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.
Alain Ducasse
Food
You
Quality
Markets
Poultry
Develop
Instinct
Up
Close
Fields
Help
Grow
Grow Up
Gardens
I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy - you name it - and one day I asked myself if there was a reason why a fear of spiders was so common. Was there something buried deep in our evolutionary history that made being scared of spiders a survival instinct?
Alexi Zentner
Myself
Day
History
You
Survival
Science
Fear
Made
Reading
Our
One Day
Evolutionary
Spiders
Scared
Something
Thrillers
Instinct
Name
Science Fiction
Up
Common
Buried
Being
Fiction
Grew
Fantasy
Asked
Being Scared
Reason
Deep
Why
I know what it feels like to love and care about things, but I've never had that instinct to have kids.
Allison Janney
Love
Care
Kids
About
Never
Had
Instinct
Feels
Like
Know
To Love
Things
I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.
Amanda Hale
Work
Better
Instinct
Come
Going
Realise
Much
I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.
Amelie Nothomb
Work
First
Someone
Instinct
Always
Lot
Movement
Either
Straight
Noticed
Who
Works
Away
Ever
I think, when I'm on the court, I become with a killer instinct - a real Scorpio.
Ana Ivanovic
Become
Think
Killer
Instinct
Court
Real
Scorpio
I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.
Andrea Arnold
You
Trust
Think
Instinct
Always
Question
Should
Your
My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
Ang Lee
Love
First
Love Story
Possible
Cast
Could
Had
Instinct
Couple
Well
Go
Go For It
Close
Short
Short Story
Story
Realized
Then
Who
Function
Actor
Needed
I've always trusted my natural instinct because nobody ever taught me how to be on the radio or produce a show, and I never went to broadcasting school or anything like that.
Angie Martinez
Me
Natural
School
Broadcasting
Never
Instinct
Nobody
Like
Because
Always
How
Trusted
Taught
Anything
Produce
Show
Radio
Ever
What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.
Antony Beevor
Change
Hatred
Ability
Propaganda
Through
Contain
Instinct
Mass
Terrifying
Does
Normal
Very
Human
Which
Much
Necessarily
I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'
Archie Panjabi
Love
Good
Day
Character
Learning
Comedy
Wife
One Day
Gut
Direct
Had
Good Wife
Instinct
Perhaps
Lot
Movie
Romantic
Romantic Comedy
Bollywood
Right
Set
I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
Barbra Streisand
Experience
Worry
About
Instinct
Go
Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
Ben Elton
Me
Comedy
Will
Writer
Instinct
Always
Am
Been
Just
Central
Transcendental Meditation, for me, has been a way of turning down the outside racket and turning up the bandwidth of instinct, intuition, concentration, attention. On the light ends, it's a power nap. On the strong ends, it's a giant battery, and that battery doesn't run out.
Ben Foster
Me
Strong
Light
Power
Down
Meditation
Way
Battery
Giant
Out
Has-Been
Run
Intuition
Outside
Attention
Instinct
Concentration
Nap
Been
Up
Bandwidth
Ends
Transcendental
Turning
Racket
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
Ben Hogan
You
Sports
Natural
Will
Every
Having
Perfect
Instinct
Come
Opposite
Reverse
Very
Close
Golf
Inclined
Swing
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
Bernardo Bertolucci
Sometimes
Think
Instinct
Make
Understand
Go
Off
Very
Often
After
Movies
Them
Really
The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.
Bertha von Suttner
Humanity
Destruction
Mind
Society
Constantly
Drives
Almost
Instinct
Annihilation
Self-Preservation
Subconsciously
Methods
Refined
Human
Against
Acting
Human Mind
Rebelling
Human Society
The natural instinct is to join in the chorus of conflict, to make your voice louder, your point bigger, and your position stronger. But we will not solve the significant and real problems our country faces if we cannot bring ourselves to embrace a mindset of grace.
Betsy DeVos
Natural
Conflict
Grace
Problems
Will
Stronger
Country
Our
Mindset
We Cannot
Ourselves
Significant
Solve
Embrace
Faces
Voice
Join
Point
Instinct
Make
Real
Louder
Real Problems
Bigger
Cannot
Your
Chorus
Bring
Position
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