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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
Florence Welch
Enthusiasm
Style
More
Instinct
Than
Skill
Playing
When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.
Frans de Waal
Blame
Dark
Innocents
Some
Animalistic
Instinct
Like
Behave
Senseless
Warfare
Slaughter
Humans
The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
Gary Oldman
You
School
Drama
Drama School
Intuition
Give
Instinct
Sharpen
Essential
Taught
Ingredient
Thing
Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Life
Made
My Life
Everything
Instinct
Ever
I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I'd try to show them they didn't need anger. They didn't need all that killing instinct they'd read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport.
George Foreman
You
Anger
Youth
Human Being
World
Try
Kids
Would
About
Pursue
Beat
Instinct
Come
Sport
Learn
Read
Box
Boxing
Houston
Up
Human
Being
Want
Wanted
Center
Them
Show
Tear
Started
Need
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
George Pierce Baker
Playwright
Dramatic
Pleasure
Adequate
Characterization
Memorable
Impersonate
Instinct
Dialogue
Provide
Itself
Literature
Produces
Actor
Desire
When I hurt Norton, I got scared. I looked to the referee. But in the same sense, you're a fighter: you gotta have the killer instinct.
Gerry Cooney
You
Hurt
Sense
Fighter
Killer
Scared
Instinct
Looked
Got
Gotta
Referee
Same
Norton
I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.
Gina Carano
You
Fight
Every
Out
Kind
Find
Instinct
How
Person
Gonna
Moment
Whoever
Basic
My instinct is probably one of the strongest assets I've got, workwise.
Gina McKee
Strongest
Instinct
Got
Assets
I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.
Glenne Headly
Good
You
Training
Think
Entirely
Instance
Instinct
Feet
Suppose
His
Lot
Good Actors
Really
Actor
Gary
Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.
Hattie Morahan
Business
Sometimes
School
Enthusiasm
Drama
Drama School
Everything
Throw
Had
Part
Instinct
Because
Limits
Go
Hit
Any
Realise
Apart
Start
You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Hector Hugh Munro
Love
Good
Me
You
Man
Soul
Unhappy
Tell
Wines
Developed
He
Simply
Highly
Instinct
Got
Stomach
Being
Either
Asparagus
Who
Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love.
Helen Fisher
Love
Strength
You
Courage
Men
Show Off
Kicks
Worthy
Guy
Sees
He
Instinct
Protect
Talking
Another
Prove
Off
Jumps
Psychological
Your
Show
Need
I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.
Helen Mirren
Me
Motherhood
No Interest
Instinct
Maternal
Whatsoever
Holds
Interest
I am, by instinct, wary of revolutions. The gathering of the masses fills me with trepidation.
Hisham Matar
Me
Gathering
Trepidation
Instinct
Masses
Am
Revolutions
Wary
Fills
It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.
Holland Taylor
People
Young
More
Absolutely
Had
Instinct
Maternal
Interested
Interesting
Young People
Much
Now
I was worried - I wasn't sure I had the maternal instinct. But the minute my son came out, he was my favorite person on earth. I was crazily in tune with him, and I knew we were going to be fine.
Holly Marie Combs
Son
Worried
Earth
Favorite
Out
Fine
Minute
Had
He
Knew
Instinct
Him
Sure
Came
Maternal
Were
Person
Going
Tune
People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.
Iris Apfel
People
Money
Too Much
Think
Too
Everything
Those
Out
Dress
Dressed
Gut
More
Inventive
Instinct
Come
Well
Make
Always
Lot
Much
Interestingly
Who
Right
Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.
Isabelle Adjani
Today
Myself
Trust
Finally
Instinct
Friends sometimes ask me, 'When you get the ball what are you thinking?' But you do not have time to think. You have to do it. It's not instinct; that's not the right word, but it's how you feel in this moment. You sense it. It's trained, but it's trained inside you. It makes you faster in the moment.
Ivan Rakitic
Time
Me
You
Sometimes
Word
Sense
Think
Faster
Thinking
Right Word
Inside
Feel
Instinct
Makes
Ball
How
Friends
Trained
Get
Ask
Moment
Right
When the things in front of you in life reveal how messed up the system is, you lose faith in the system pretty quickly. You develop a contrarian attitude. Your instinct is to disagree with the status quo and then, if you can, to try and shake it up.
Jalen Rose
Life
Attitude
Faith
You
Disagree
Try
Lose
System
Status
Status Quo
Pretty
Shake
Develop
Instinct
Messed
Messed Up
Reveal
How
Up
Quickly
Front
Quo
Then
Your
Things
As a global disrupter, Uber is no stranger to conflict, and its instinct has always been pugilistic.
James B. Stewart
Conflict
Instinct
Global
Always
Been
Stranger
The deepest instinct is to want to do something enduring, something worthwhile, and to be engaged by that, whether one achieves it or not.
James Salter
Worthwhile
Something
Instinct
Want
Achieves
Enduring
Whether
Engaged
Deepest
That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.
Jason Fried
Work
Home
Great
Eyes
Natural
People
Will
Wind
Too
Enough
Worry
Threat
See
Allowing
Instinct
Look
She
Because
Real
Passionate
Up
Person
Irony
Manager
Sitting
Done
Getting
Anymore
Burnout
Worker
Workers
Working
Across
Hard
Her
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
Jean Cocteau
You
Try
Free
Poison
First
Society
Too
Honors
Lock
Finish
Beat
Head
Instinct
Fails
Truly
Up
Begins
Trying
Anybody
Your
Who
Nearly
Societies
I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.
Jeffrey Combs
Opportunity
Out
Instinct
Naivete
Mixture
Acting
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