Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. Votes: 4
Billy WilderWhether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeInstinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes. Votes: 3
Friedrich NietzscheInstinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. Votes: 3
Henri MatisseIntuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. Votes: 2
Florence Scovel ShinnWomen have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. Votes: 2
Oscar WildeTrust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Votes: 2
Joyce BrothersGood instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. Votes: 2
E. Michael BurkeTo live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. Votes: 2
Samuel ButlerI don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. Votes: 2
Walt DisneyA personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy. Votes: 0
John IrvingLovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals. Votes: 0
Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and BulwerThe herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. Votes: 0
Edgar FiedlerThe herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.. Votes: 0
Edgar FiedlerBoxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct. Votes: 0
Sugar Ray LeonardWhen reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal. Votes: 0
Jean-Philippe RameauThe simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego. Votes: 0
Chogyam TrungpaWhen publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceBecause trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish. Votes: 0
Elizabeth WurtzelThe religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy. Votes: 0
Hugh Reginald HaweisIt's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach. Votes: 0
Van MorrisonEven in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellMaternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence. Votes: 0
Charlotte Perkins GilmanI rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics. Votes: 0
Richard BransonGangbanging is a survival instinct, regardless of how anybody tries to paint it. Votes: 0
Nipsey HussleA man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct. Votes: 0
Karl KrausThe actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct. Votes: 0
Antonin ArtaudTheater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision. Votes: 0
John GoodwinI gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity. Votes: 0
Jeffrey CombsI think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life. Votes: 0
Armistead MaupinArtist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice. Votes: 0
Don BlandingIn any situation, listen and follow the first instinct, the sacred inner voice. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaThe soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth. Votes: 0
Henry Theodore TuckermanLet your *need* guide you behavior. *Supress* your instinct to lead... Pursue Rabbit! Votes: 0
Cheshire CatThat instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer. Votes: 0
Graham GreeneThis heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee! Votes: 0
Thomas MoorePhysical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. Votes: 0
Wendell PhillipsThere is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over. Votes: 0
Cindy NelsonBanks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations. Votes: 0
Herve FalcianiGreat souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonGreat souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GeorgeMan's strongest instinct is not sex or self-preservation. it's to level the playing field. Votes: 0
Ron BrackinConflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold. Votes: 0
Harville HendrixFight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. Votes: 0
Jean CocteauNature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity. Votes: 0
Michel de Montaigne... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling. Votes: 0
Samuel FlormanSometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic. Votes: 0
Naveen JainLike every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinConformity"the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. Votes: 0
Mark TwainI don't think about making sexy clothes. It's just my instinct to make them. Votes: 0
Donatella VersaceThey call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241) Votes: 0
Ilsa J. BickLike hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body. Votes: 0
Deepak ChopraThe strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it. Votes: 0
Kenneth GrahameAll money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury. Votes: 0
Prince PhilipI think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive. Votes: 0
Julie WaltersConscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct. Votes: 0
Samuel SmilesTo insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. Votes: 0
Guillaume ApollinaireLife is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power. Votes: 0
Friedrich Nietzschedoubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct Votes: 0
Kathryn SchulzAlthough I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinAppetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceLove of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies. Votes: 0
John GalsworthyThe creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. Votes: 0
Francis BaconIf every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right. Votes: 0
Jerry SeinfeldFor a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations. Votes: 0
Carl SaganThere is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultEach of has a natural instinct to rise like a flame. Lets nurture that instinct Votes: 0
Narendra ModiIt is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life. Votes: 0
Katharine Butler HathawayYou just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart. Votes: 0
Gerard WayWhen anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better. Votes: 0
Didi ConnA good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses. Votes: 0
Donna MurphyWhy should a manufacturer bet his money, perhaps the future of his company, on your instinct? Votes: 0
David OgilvyThe hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it. Votes: 0
Max BeerbohmThe brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinOur aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man. Votes: 0
Robert WinstonHope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. Votes: 0
Graham GreeneSeems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden. Votes: 0
Robert A. Heinlein'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool. Votes: 0
Oscar IsaacThe instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure. Votes: 0
Lofty WisemanYour final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought. Votes: 0
David LeadbetterAn instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge. Votes: 0
Sir William Hamilton, 9th BaronetWe surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know. Votes: 0
Arthur Conan DoyleYou need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct. Votes: 0
Chris HughesMy mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying! Votes: 0
Lindsay LohanArt and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do. Votes: 0
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelLife is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. Votes: 0
Samuel ButlerWrite out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money. Votes: 0
Louis UntermeyerWhen the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide. Votes: 0
Shonda RhimesOne must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion. Votes: 0
Gertrude SteinThe combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. Votes: 0
George SantayanaJazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. Votes: 0
Duke EllingtonThe desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race. Votes: 0
Gerald M. LoebI suppose every time [something bad happens], I have that instinct to make that joke that distracts. Votes: 0
Phoebe Waller-BridgeFashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct. Votes: 0
Edith HeadBy all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct. Votes: 0
Steve PavlinaYou have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day. Votes: 0
Nitin SawhneyIntuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeYet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct. Votes: 0
Henry WilliamsonI have a good instinct for what's real and what's not. I don't have to second-guess myself. Votes: 0
Ben AffleckNotes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right. Votes: 0
Lance ReddickOur cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself. Votes: 0
Seth GodinI've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't. Votes: 0
Claudette ColbertIt is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves. Votes: 0
James Russell LowellI guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist. Votes: 0
Bill WattersonCourage is instinct, and heroes are born in the moment. Trust yourself to be great, I do! Votes: 0
D.C. AkersI had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke. Votes: 0
Jory JohnGuitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct. Votes: 0
St. VincentBy instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye. Votes: 0
Walter F. MondaleDo you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it? Votes: 0
Steven PressfieldI have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival. Votes: 0
Karl LagerfeldIf obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteI definitely go on gut instinct but it has always had the back up of research and information. Votes: 0
Richard BransonCreativity to me is the life force that is in us. Itâs an animalistic instinct for survival. Votes: 0
Elie TahariLet men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice. Votes: 0
SophoclesAlmost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak. Votes: 0
Nate SilverIt has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamWhen teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan. Votes: 0
Adele DevineTenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope. Votes: 0
Michel HouellebecqWhat is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife. Votes: 0
Finley Peter DunneMy first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press. Votes: 0
Veronica RothI have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands. Votes: 0
Brian WilsonI don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct. Votes: 0
Tom StoppardI think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live. Votes: 0
Sarah KayI am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct. Votes: 0
Clarence BirdseyeI have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment. Votes: 0
Ravi ShankarThere is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy. Votes: 0
Henryk SienkiewiczWe lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct. Votes: 0
Marion CotillardJanice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part. Votes: 0
Anne FortierFear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive. Votes: 0
Theodore SturgeonI go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct. Votes: 0
Haruki MurakamiMusic is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds. Votes: 0
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