Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts.
I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.
Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.
To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people. . . . In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us. . . [so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.
I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.
Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.
Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts.
I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.
Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow.
I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.
Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
I think everyone should follow their instincts, and go with what they feel, and follow their heart.
Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.
I think the good news for me in life is that I really trust my instincts when I come to work. Maybe less in life and in love, but in work and in comedic beats, I feel pretty confident.
Every time I trust my instincts I land on my feet and every time I don't, I go, "Why didn't I trust my instinct?"
On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.
I've had a great life following my faith and my instincts.
I believe in following your instincts with the people that you like and who you like to be with.
Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously. . . and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.