Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 61
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. Lynn Abbey American Author More Lynn Abbey Quotes 1
Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally. Isabelle Adjani French Actress More Isabelle Adjani Quotes 1
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. Lynn Abbey American Author More Lynn Abbey Quotes 1
Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you. Dino De Laurentiis Italian Director More Dino De Laurentiis Quotes 0
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct. Denis Leary American Actor More Denis Leary Quotes 0
It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel. David Leavitt American Novelist More David Leavitt Quotes 0
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 Chinese Director More Ang Lee Quotes 0
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 American Athlete More Ben Hogan Quotes 0
Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct. Sugar Ray Leonard American Athlete More Sugar Ray Leonard Quotes 0
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror. Sonya Levien More Sonya Levien Quotes 0
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 0
If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me. Charlie Hunnam English Actor More Charlie Hunnam Quotes 0
My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying! Lindsay Lohan American Actress More Lindsay Lohan Quotes 0
Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff. Adrian Lyne English Director More Adrian Lyne Quotes 0
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. Anais Nin American Author More Anais Nin Quotes 0
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Richard M. Nixon American President More Richard M. Nixon Quotes 0
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. Jacques Maritain French Philosopher More Jacques Maritain Quotes 0
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. Don Marquis American Poet More Don Marquis Quotes 0
One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else. Branford Marsalis American Musician More Branford Marsalis Quotes 0
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form. Thomas Mann German Writer More Thomas Mann Quotes 0
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. Jose Marti Activist More Jose Marti Quotes 0