“ Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
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“ The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. ”
- Sarah Bernhardt- Copy
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“ Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. ”
- Ernest Renan- Copy
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“ Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. ”
- Henry R. Luce- Copy
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“ Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire. ”
- Vera Brittain- Copy
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“ Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. ”
- Bruce Lee- Copy
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“ An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. ”
- Malcolm Gladwell- Copy
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“ None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. ”
- Lydia M. Child- Copy
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“ Compassion is the intention to think and act as if you are no more entitled to get what you want than anyone else is. This intention is based on the conscious understanding that everyone wants about the same things for about the same reasons. Almost all human desires arise from similar instinctive sources… ”
- Timothy Ray Miller- Copy
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“ The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny — that which we call character — but rather improving it and enhancing it as far as possible…Through training, instruction, contemplation, success, failure, advancement, hindrance, and ever more contemplation, the organs of man, in their instinctive, free activity, unite the acquired with the innate to produce a harmonious unity that astonished the world. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ With the black marble which gives the fireplace the air of a miniature family vault, to suggest early Victorian commercial respectability, belief in money, Bible fetichism, fear of hell always at war with fear of poverty, instinctive horror of the passionate character of art, love and Roman Catholic religion, and all the first fruits of plutocracy in the early generations of the industrial revolution. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ The highest courage is not to be found in the instinctive acts of men who risk their lives to save a friend or slay a foe; the physical fearlessness of a moment or an hour is not to be compared with immolation of months or years for the sake of wisdom or art. ”
- Joseph H. Odell- Copy
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“ Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities? ”
- Jay H. Dinsah- Copy
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“ It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. ”
- Havelock Ellis- Copy
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“ I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids… ”
- Og Mandino- Copy
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“ Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter. ”
- Betty Rollin- Copy
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