If you have the kind of intelligence and instinct that will point you in the right direction, playing the rebel will not be dangerous. But if you are mediocre ... you are better off learning from your predecessor's knowledge and experience, which are based on something real.
Instinct is something which transcends knowledge
To be more accurate, Eszter continued, it was only a shadow in the mirror, a mirror where the image and the mirror wholly coincided though the shadow nevertheless tried to separate them, to separate two things that had from eternity been the same and could not be separated or cut into two, thereby losing the weightless delight of being swept along with it, substituting, he thought as he stepped away from the drawing-room window, a solid eternity purchased with knowledge for the sweet song of participating in eternity, a song so airy it was lighter than a feather.
In this way, reason represented by your knowledge, and experience represented by instinct -will start to conflict. Eventually, one will lose, and confusion sets in.
Imagination is the sacred intuition.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Women have an instinct for what the market is. We have tremendous insight in terms of understanding products and consumerism.
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.
A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.
I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.
I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.
My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
Politicians have an acutely honed instinct for self-preservation.
I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.
When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
I am, by instinct, wary of revolutions. The gathering of the masses fills me with trepidation.
