I’ve never understood cheating, probably because I never cared much about my grades. I instinctively knew that the grades didn’t measure anything meaningful – usually just my ability to quickly memorize information I’d just as quickly forget.
Having emigrated to the United States as a small boy from the Soviet Union, I am instinctively suspicious of socialism and inveterately opposed to communism.
The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.
Instinctively I know the difference between general pain from bowling, and pain caused by a specific problem.
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.
When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of ‘Peter Pan’ for the school play. They didn’t use it – I imagine it was unperformable – but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me.
I’m instinctively cautious because I’m an academic.
We do things instinctively and not necessarily rationally. It’s almost like we’re being controlled by unseen forces, which is something I don’t like. I’ve been making a real effort to try to find out what those forces are and get them out of my life.
I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had a great impact on me when my father walked the picket lines and I walked with him during the civil rights movement.
I don’t have any regrets, because I think life is like a creek. It kind of meanders along, and you instinctively do the things you are meant to do. There’s no great plan except doing really good scripts, meeting great filmmakers. And I have to have something that I can bring to the role.
I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It’s come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it’s kind of out of my hands now.
Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.
The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.
Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I’ve watched women dance to all my life, that I’ve danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist.
Megyn Kelly is one of those rare women who seamlessly combines professional excellence and family. She doesn’t need a catch phrase to define what she instinctively has accomplished. She just ‘does it.’
I am instinctively wary of identity politics. Ultimately, no two black men are the same, any more than two white men are the same.
I try to live instinctively. And I guess I’ve always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming.
I’m instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.
If I had the gift of Jerry Seinfeld, of Bill Cosby, of Lewis Black, these instinctively brilliant comic minds, then you go that route! But you gotta know your limitations. I’m more of an actor, more of a process guy. I did Tom Snyder, just as Danny Aykroyd did on ‘SNL.’ I did it in the club.
The parent knows instinctively that if they’re working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.
When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service reciprocation.
As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.
I try to live instinctively. And I guess I’ve always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That’s why I want to act.
We are all somebody’s children, and when we’re in pain, we regress, instinctively looking to our parents to make everything better.
Really, if I’m honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes – I’m a big comic-book fan.
I’ll instinctively know that I identify with a character.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
I’ll tell you what I do have: I have a good feel for ordinary people, for politics, and those are my strengths. I understand, I hope instinctively, where many of our Armed Forces come from.
I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That’s why I can’t play any role that isn’t based on something in my life.
I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.
For me, family feels like a web of love and care, and instinctively, too, I do just like nurturing things.
I do quite a lot of art, with a small ‘a’. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
At some point, most of us reach a place where we’re afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what is placed in front of us or only what we’re already good at. This confines us and stifles us.
If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
The moment I feel pressure to read a book, I instinctively rebel against it – which is probably one reason I didn’t last long in college.
Being pregnant and carrying a child is a blessing unique to womankind and a mother instinctively wants the best for her child.
If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
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