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If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.
Kit Williams
Tells
Instinct
Advertising
Makes
Listen
Human
Want
Us
Actually
Things
Need
I think motherhood is just about instinct.
Kourtney Kardashian
Motherhood
Think
About
Instinct
Just
Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.
Laura Amy Schlitz
Kindness
Justice
Natural
Cruelty
Mercy
Needless
Side
Moral
Folklore
About
Indignation
Feel
Instinct
Towards
Underdog
Always
Children
Center
Acts
I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.
Laura Linney
People
School
Long
Group
Part
Feel
Instinct
Safe
Want
Why
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.
Laurence Olivier
Better
Others
Some
Instinct
Surely
Always
Than
Us
Acted
Inherent
I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.
Leila Slimani
Home
Women
Think
Has-Been
Construct
Instinct
Maternal
Been
Male
Place
Centuries
Used
Keep
Entrepreneurs typically have an instinct for smelling opportunity, but that same killer instinct can quickly turn to weakness when it becomes a distraction from primary goals.
Lewis Howes
Opportunity
Goals
Killer
Distraction
Weakness
Entrepreneurs
Primary
Instinct
Smelling
Becomes
Quickly
Same
Turn
It never occurred to me that artists, of all people, have to be reminded that instinct is more important than tradition, but in our industry, people seem to forget that sometimes.
Lexi Alexander
Me
People
Sometimes
Important
Our
All People
Seem
More
Never
Reminded
Instinct
Industry
Occurred
Tradition
Than
Forget
Artists
I think, the first time I played Iago at the Public Theater, I realized I had a - much to my chagrin - I realized I had an instinct for these conflicted characters, for these torn characters, for these characters who could be described as evil. I wouldn't describe them that way.
Liev Schreiber
Time
Evil
First
Think
Way
Characters
Torn
Could
Had
Instinct
First Time
Theater
Public
Them
Realized
Much
Who
Chagrin
Describe
Played
Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non.
Louis MacNeice
Experience
Men
Sense
Other
Poets
Mysticism
Instinct
Implies
Sine
Most
Narrow
Foreign
Hand
Human
Represents
Which
Specific
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Louisa May Alcott
Character
Worth
Clothes
Manners
Possess
Magic
More
Had
Instinct
Powerful
Over
She
Womanly
Than
Influence
Many
Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.
Mario Balotelli
Good
Me
Heart
Sometimes
Field
Believe
Astray
Follow
Direction
Steer
Head
Instinct
Instincts
Leads
Off
Which
Right
Right Direction
As an entrepreneur, you can have an instinct, and your instinct is right, but your idea you're substantiating that into is wrong, and the world is not ready for it.
Mark Pincus
You
World
Entrepreneur
Wrong
Idea
Instinct
Ready
Your
Right
There's a herd instinct, and every time that people hear an announcement such as PayPal's in Dundalk, they start thinking, 'Ireland must be good if they're investing there', and by extension, 'Dundalk must be good, so let's have a look at it.'
Martin Naughton
Time
Good
People
Every
Herd
Thinking
Every Time
Must
Investing
Instinct
Announcement
Look
Hear
Ireland
PayPal
Extension
Start
In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.
Mary Augusta Ward
Art
Trust
Half
Back
Follow
Follows
More
Only
Instinct
Over
Look
Sort
Than
Same
Fiction
Century
Choice
I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.
Matthew Weiner
Natural
People
Think
Liberal
Guess
Instinct
Because
My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.
Michael Hirst
Character
People
Writing
Nothing
Other
Way
Recoil
TV
About
Could
Absolutely
Instinct
Ideas
Talking
Dumber
Than
Script
Should
Film
Based
The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.
Michael Medved
Spiritual
Business
Problem
Every
Thinking
Difficulties
Liberal
Dimension
Compounding
Follows
Spiritual Dimension
Instinct
Deny
Common
Movie
Movie Business
Thereby
Profoundly
I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.
Mickey Drexler
Business
Important
Consider
Run
Intuition
Someone
Merchant
Instinct
Knows
How
Very
Certain
Who
Numbers
A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool.
Natalie Dormer
Family
Circle
Pool
Back
Way
Out
Kind
Gene
General
Rely
Poker
Instinct
Boy
Go
Brain
Mathematicians
Lot
Probability
Who
Found
Play
Cards
Recently
Whether it's a double take or a spit take or an extra-long pause before a reaction or a line, I try to be as cognizant as possible about the technical end of it. So I think the physical stuff works easier for me than maybe for others who are more just going on instinct.
Neil Patrick Harris
Me
Try
Before
Think
Others
Easier
Possible
Physical
About
More
Spit
Take
Instinct
Stuff
Reaction
Line
End
Than
Going
Maybe
Just
Whether
Double
Pause
Who
Works
Technical
Cognizant
Football and me have never got on. My instinct and love for the harder end of contact had always meant I was perhaps a little too heavy-handed for football. Somehow it left me feeling unfulfilled.
Nick Frost
Love
Me
Feeling
Too
Somehow
Never
Had
Football
Contact
Instinct
Perhaps
Always
Got
Left
End
Heavy-Handed
Unfulfilled
Little
Meant
Harder
I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting.
Nicolas Berggruen
Me
Possess
Nest
Instinct
Became
Understand
Off
Human
Want
Interesting
Them
Personally
Create
Show
Less
Things
Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible.
Nicole Trunfio
Family
Natural
Kids
Possible
Marry
Soon
Instinct
Come
Because
Close
My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.
Noel Gallagher
Positive
Hope
Negative
First
Think
Everything
Some
Something
Write
Songs
Instinct
Done
Form
Ever
In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
Octavio Paz
Work
Eyes
Decision
Own
Our
Consists
Poetic
Tension
Instinct
Verse
Close
Us
Choose
Awaits
Each
Alert
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