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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mohandas Gandhi

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.
Alan Bates

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
William Gibson

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
William Henry Hudson

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.
Kim Novak

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.
George P. Baker

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.
Willie Stargell

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

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

I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.
Mikhail Bakunin

I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
Ida B. Wells

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
F. Murray Abraham

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.
Rem Koolhaas

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.
Guy Ritchie

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

I'm not an instinctive actor.
John Thaw

I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner.
Shannon Elizabeth

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
Arthur Keith

Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.
Joseph Rotblat

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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