It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.
How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.
I know what it feels like to love and care about things, but I've never had that instinct to have kids.
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
Showrunning is an arrogant job. You have to be arrogant and hold yourself strong in order for people to hear you. Confidence partners with arrogance. The only person you have to trust is yourself. The only instinct you can trust is your own.
Working hard to fulfill a dream or instinct and learning over time it doesn't work, doesn't mean a career is over and a reputation killed. When a reputation is killed, it's when failure comes as a result of loss of integrity or judgement... breaking of laws.
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instinct.
I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.
I did 'Basic Instinct 2' because I had a baby about to be born, and the director said we could shoot before the due date.
I make all my decisions by listening to my instinct and then keeping my fingers crossed it will lead to a good place.
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.
Instinct is the nose of the mind.
I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.
I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.
But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.