Pastoral Resources

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.

I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.

I live on my gut instinct.

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here.