Innate Quotations

Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?

All animals exhibit innate behaviors in response to specific sensory stimuli that are likely to result from the activation of developmentally programmed circuits.

The identification of a population of olfactory sensory neurons innervating a single glomerulus that mediates robust avoidance to a naturally occurring odorant provides insight in the neural circuitry that underlies this innate behavior.

Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience early in life is necessary for their maintenance and full development. Deprivation experiments demonstrate that neural connections can be modulated by environmental influences during a critical period of postnatal development.

I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it.

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

I don't think I've got an innate sense of style, but I guess I'm influenced by those I love and admire. You hope that you combine those influences in a way that becomes your own.

A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.

We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but that is not the case. Great memories are learned. At the most basic level, we remember when we pay attention. We remember when we are deeply engaged.

There are a few people who are, let's say, personality-challenged, who would like to set up a cult, but in large part they fail due to the innate stroppiness and independence of their fellow pagans.

There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that unites us as a species, or it is an invention, like fire or wearing clothes, an idea so good that it was bound to metastasize across the globe.

We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.

The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.

The 'Moonlighting' tension of the couple that obviously never can get together, there's an innate sort of fun and tension in that.

There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.

I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.

It's funny because I never studied, I never took a class. So everything I do is very innate and organic; I don't really have words for it. It is a communion with spirit. I don't get in my own way and allow the character to do what it's going to do.

Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.

I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

From the time I could speak, I knew I wanted to have children. It was just an innate desire.

The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity.

Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.

Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.

I have a kind of innate sense of structure, which also makes me a good mimic.

I don't think anyone thinks that the SAT score is a measure of your innate intelligence. It is not. That is a fallacious concept, and we at Kaplan, and others who are in a position, should be out there making sure people know this is nothing, this score does not have anything to do with your innate intelligence.

I enjoyed my time at primary school because my teachers made the world seem such an interesting place and encouraged my innate curiosity.

If that's his goal and he settles into it, he's got the talent to do it. He's got some innate qualities that you can't coach, he's improved his technical ability and he can play at some big-time levels.

He will be regarded as one of the greatest leaders this country has ever had, ... He knew who he was, who we are as a people, and had an enthusiasm -- a great confidence for the innate goodness of this nation.

He has an innate ability to hit people with the ball. It doesn't matter if he's in one far corner and you're in another, you are going to get hit.

There is no greater storyteller than Steven Spielberg, ... In addition to his gift for pleasing movie audiences, he has an innate understanding of games and how to immerse players into a fantastic world of action and characters.

Her innate humanity, her basic decency and her involvement with others certainly describe Lori. She is a remarkable community leader and she is a wonderful wife, partner and a loving mother.

He seems to have kind of an innate understanding of the game for someone as young as he is. I don't think it will be three years before he plays. I think (Lakers coach Phil Jackson) will like him.

I admire people like Judd Nelson, who have an innate sense of fashion. Judd could wear a bathrobe and sanitarium sandals and a fedora and look good.

I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

It is a reflection of the bank's recognition that the innate profitability of the retail and small business customer ain't so bad.

Just as Western physicists announced the existence of gravitation after their experiments, the ancients of this land demonstrated the innate authenticity of the Vedas through their own experience.

It does highlight the innate tightness of energy supplies, not only in the U.S. and China but Europe too, and the general dependence on remote and politically uncertain sources of supply.

I think I was brought up with an innate sense of responsibility because my dad was in the Foreign Office where you were in somebody else's country, and you were aware of your behaviour. And my mum worked for the NHS, so you were aware of your responsibility to your country.

Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.

With all the bad things a police officer sees, there is just an incredible level of innate goodness out there,

well-functioning markets have no innate tendency to promote excellence in any form. They offer no resistance to forces making for a descent into cultural barbarity or moral depravity.

Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.

That which I named 'innate' is a segment of that intelligence which fills the universe.

When the game is on the line or the game is tight, she's a person who will step up and not be afraid to score or make something happen. It's something you can't teach. It's an innate thing, and she definitely possesses that.

What separates him, and most people don't see, is the way he works to get better. And he has the ability to think on his feet. He just has an innate ability to know what to do and then the athletic ability to do it. Not many people have that combination.

Another part of that mindfulness concept is the ability to relate to all types of people and see what they can contribute. Certainly, many important leadership skills can be developed, but I feel that trait of mindfulness is an innate capability that someone either has or doesn't have.

Far from being entirely dependent on exogenous food sources of antioxidants, our cells have their own innate ability to generate antioxidants upon demand.

Think about where they came from. They have an innate fear of water right now. The last thing they want to do is get on board a cruise ship that's in water.

Rather than dull our consciences to the unmitigated violence of abortion, the passage of time has only enabled us to see and, frankly, better understand the innate cruelty of abortion and its horrific legacy - victims - while making us more determined than ever to protect the weakest and the most vulnerable.

People thought I was crazy, but it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened, ... People here have a great work ethic, an innate loyalty that's different from other places with more of a transient population.

People can definitely develop good leadership capabilities. To a certain degree, we all have innate traits that make us good bosses. All you really have to do is work to develop those traits to their utmost.

Spectators who witnessed that concert, ... still recount his fearless attitude, innate stage charisma and striking technique -- balancing on toes, slapping the floor with the sides of his shoes, releasing cascades of musical sounds while powering off the boards with both legs kicking.

Coin laundries have an innate sense of community. People have a lot of time to talk while waiting for their laundry to get done. The best place to get a community perspective on current events is at the coin laundry.

This favoritism, while poorly understood, seems to be innate and cross-cultural. Studies suggest that even infants prefer pretty faces.

This is what Blizzard always does. They have an innate genius at taking these genres that are considered hard-core geek property and repolishing them so they are accessible to the mainstream. To do that without losing their geek cred is an incredible achievement.

It's an innate thing, ... It's a Tiger Woods thing, it's a Jack Nicklaus thing. And that's what you kind of equate it to, because it's you against the ball.

Each of you should be satisfied that your struggle expresses an innate moral commitment passed on by those we honor.

I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it's poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don't reach people, because they're aware that you're imposing something on a story that isn't innate to it.

I'm drawn to girls with a certain self-effacing, humorous quality and an innate independence and point of view. I love the notion of never taking yourself too seriously or being too put together.

I knew it was special enough to leave everything I had in Kentucky. Not only would I do it again, I would do it precisely the same way. I already had this new music in my blood. The whole process of doing that was innate leap into some other music form. I didn't have a choice.

I have such a respect for comedy. It's a lot harder than doing drama, in my opinion; you have to have sort of an innate sense of humor. There are rules to comedy you can learn. But ultimately, it really does require a certain point of view on the world, and that really does appeal to me.

Investors have an innate tendency to allocate money to sectors that make money, and the strong commodity bull market still has some way to run.

In my view, a child is born with the INNATE POTENTIAL to learn to handle deliberate focus shifts such as are seen in the kaleidoscopic poetry shifts, but both the young and old need to learn such matters from available oral or written culture or from teachers - or must have initiative and imagination to develop some such devices on their own.

INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent --as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we are born with, having had them previously imparted to us. The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable faiths of philosophy, being itself an innate idea and therefore inaccessible to disproof, though Locke foolishly supposed himself to have given it ""a black eye."" Among innate ideas may be mentioned the belief in one's ability to conduct a newspaper, in the greatness of one's country, in the superiority of one's civilization, in the importance of one's personal affairs and in the interesting nature of one's diseases.

He's extremely talented. He has great speed and quickness. His field vision is his greatest asset. He has an innate ability to make people miss.

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so I'm used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects.

He's not as good an athlete as his older brother. He's not as dangerous a runner as his older brother. He's got a better innate feel for the passing game than his brother did at this time of his career.

I completely agreed with him, ... These are basic human principles, when you're talking about kindness and compassion and the innate desire for happiness. But it still doesn't hurt talking about it ... You never know when it's actually going to sink in and a person is going to implement it in their own lives.

Every woman's innate ability to let anything go.

All I ever saw Sarah Russell play was forward. I asked her two days before the season started, 'What are your thoughts about playing defense?' and she said, 'Oh I love it, I've played it all my life.' But she has wonderful stick skills and an innate confidence as a competitor, and she was clearly one of our top defensemen all year.

The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design.

The idea of universal brotherhood is innate in the catholic nature of Chinese thought; it was the dominant concept of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whom events have proved time and again to be not a visionary but one of the world's greatest realists.

The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.

Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.

Everything has what is innate,everything has what is necessary.