Word: instinctive
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...take long for them to get back into the flow of things.“Once you step on the field, football’s the same,” Brown, the new Parma quarterback, said. “It makes it instinctual.”That instinct will be advantageous to the three Panthers as they adjust to playing alongside men who are working full-time jobs instead of devoting their extra hours to two-a-days and watching film. “Over here, [football’s] not taken quite as seriously as it was in college...
...Beijing Olympics in protest over China's crackdown in Tibet. He always intended, he says, to miss the opening celebrations but to attend the closing ceremonies, where the mantle of the Olympics will be passed on to London, which will host the summer games in 2012. Brown's instinct is for greater engagement with China. "It's in America's interests as well as Europe's to reform our international institutions now. China is knocking on the door to be part of the international institutions," he says. "As China and India become more important, we will lose the moment...
...relationship between this theoretical work and the dance that comes out of it is not always direct, but each feeds the other. By immersing himself in research, McGregor says, he is able to walk into the studio, surrender to "the visceral thrill of moving," and create from instinct. Dance breaks down if it's overloaded with theory, but it's the physical rush of the choreography that you take away from a McGregor performance - the mesh of high-speed detail, the interplay between the lyrical and the neurotic, the steely calligraphy of the limbs. Few choreographers make more extreme physical...
...said his immediate instinct was to turn down the job, thinking he needed to go back to school. He e-mailed at least 30 of his mentors and friends, asking for advice on what he should do, and received an overwhelming response in favor of taking...
...says. "The subject you studied in school doesn't mean anything. What is significant is the training of your brain. My doctorate is in logistics, and I never worked in logistics, while our head of production logistics did his doctorate in nuclear physics." What he instead values most is instinct. "But you have to train that instinct," he notes...