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.
The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.
Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.
Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.
Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it. ' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.
The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong.
I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.
Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals.
I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along.
Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).
I need to trust myself and go where my instincts tell me, and to be as wild and free as possible in my creative decisions.
I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.
Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right. ' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.
My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.
. . . as your father, my instinct is to protect you. . . Other people will want to protect you too. But remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget the prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.
It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.