Quotes about Instinct

There is no instinct like that of the heart. Votes: 4

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. Votes: 4

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. Votes: 4

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. Votes: 4

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way. Votes: 4

Instinct leads, logic does but follow. Votes: 3

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. Votes: 3

How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine. Votes: 3

Instinct is the direct connection with truth. Votes: 3

People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless. Votes: 3

Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell. Votes: 3

Instinct seeks satisfaction. Love is free of all demands. Votes: 3

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves. Votes: 3

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored. Votes: 3

The best decisions aren't made with your mind, but with your Instinct. Votes: 3

Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it. Votes: 3

The spirit finds a way to be born. Instinct seeks for ways to survive. Votes: 3

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best. Votes: 3

Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate. Votes: 3

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes. Votes: 3

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. Votes: 3

I could make Basic Instinct 16. If guys will keep thinking I'm hot, I might turn it into a TV series. Votes: 3

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. Votes: 3

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience. Votes: 3

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct. Votes: 3

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence. Votes: 3

Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile. Votes: 3

Instinct told me it was dangerous. I could handle dangerous. Dangerous and me went back a long way. We did lunch when dangerous was in town. Votes: 3

It's funny, but I never knew I was hot or could be beautiful until I saw 'Basic Instinct,' and I was so shocked when I saw how pretty they made me. Votes: 3

In art as in love, instinct is enough. Votes: 2

You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment. Votes: 2

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. Votes: 2

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. Votes: 2

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us Votes: 2

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct. Votes: 2

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself. Votes: 2

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. Votes: 2

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. Votes: 2

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Votes: 2

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. Votes: 2

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. Votes: 2

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. Votes: 2

I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. Votes: 2

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. Votes: 2

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change. Votes: 2

You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide. Votes: 2

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through. Votes: 2

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride. Votes: 2

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both. Votes: 2

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts. Votes: 2

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary. Votes: 2

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out. Votes: 2

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. Votes: 2

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension. Votes: 2

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Votes: 2

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct. Votes: 2

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path. Votes: 2

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. Votes: 2

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface. Votes: 2

Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry. Votes: 2

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery. Votes: 2

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man! Votes: 2

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest. Votes: 2

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Votes: 2

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. Votes: 2

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share. Votes: 2

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days. Votes: 2

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way. Votes: 2

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom. Votes: 2

People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct. If I was to walk down the street in a kilt, then dudes would wonder why I'm doing that, they'd think I was different or gay. It's natural for people to point fingers. That's my whole reason for trying to switch things up; don't judge a book by it's cover. Votes: 2

When I found Jesus Christ, I learned to be a better athlete. I didn't have to go out there and knock them out in the first round. I've learned to be patient, skillful in the ring. At the same time, I wanted to prove to other boxers that you can take off this killer instinct stuff, you can be a great athlete, a great boxer, and love your brother. Votes: 2

Trust your first instinct. Votes: 0

Always trust your instinct. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton has no instinct. Votes: 0

I write out of instinct. Votes: 0

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway Votes: 0

I live on my gut instinct. Votes: 0

I was a coward on instinct. Votes: 0

It pays to trust your instinct. Votes: 0

instinct leads me to another flow Votes: 0

Reason is the servant of instinct. Votes: 0

Your instinct is your divine being. Votes: 0

Making movies is all about instinct. Votes: 0

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture. Votes: 0

Its the difference between instinct and intuition, Votes: 0

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. Votes: 0

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark. Votes: 0

Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. Votes: 0

It's a human instinct to be known. Votes: 0

Style is primarily a matter of instinct. Votes: 0

You can trust your gut instinct. Always. Votes: 0

My instinct is to be very controlling. Votes: 0

The instinct of the people is right. Votes: 0

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs. Votes: 0

Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct! Votes: 0

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. Votes: 0

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation. Votes: 0

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. Votes: 0

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. Votes: 0

A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer ... Votes: 0

Experience is a question of instinct about life. Votes: 0

Writing is above all a question of instinct. Votes: 0

A person born with an instinct for poverty. Votes: 0

Your instinct is your true god. Follow it. Votes: 0

I work on instinct. It's my best adviser. Votes: 0

Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive. Votes: 0

I don't know if you can articulate an instinct. Votes: 0

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature. Votes: 0

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion. Votes: 0

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage Votes: 0

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind. Votes: 0

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct. Votes: 0

Neither instinct nor style ..can be bought or taught. Votes: 0

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. Votes: 0

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. Votes: 0

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally. Votes: 0

I prepare to the point where instinct take over... Votes: 0

My watchful animal instinct to avoid people is almost overpowering. Votes: 0

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction. Votes: 0

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free. Votes: 0

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous. Votes: 0

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. Votes: 0

Sorry. An overdeveloped nurturing instinct comes with being a healer. Votes: 0

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct. Votes: 0

Alcohol, contrary to instinct, is not the secret to happiness. Votes: 0

The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind. Votes: 0

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love. Votes: 0

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals. Votes: 0

I always believe your instinct is the most correct instinct. Votes: 0

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic. Votes: 0

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. Votes: 0

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. Votes: 0

I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel. Votes: 0

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience. Votes: 0

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water. Votes: 0

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook. Votes: 0

A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy. Votes: 0

Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals. Votes: 0

I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one. Votes: 0

There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship. Votes: 0

Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular. Votes: 0

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards. Votes: 0

Act on your instinct. It is the spirit of your divinity. Votes: 0

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius. Votes: 0

We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage Votes: 0

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill. Votes: 0

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art. Votes: 0

Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst. Votes: 0

Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct. Votes: 0

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. Votes: 0

I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline. Votes: 0

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work. Votes: 0

In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow. Votes: 0

Follow your gut instinct - your heart, it will guide you. Votes: 0

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.. Votes: 0

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct. Votes: 0

The Killer instinct is not perceived by words, but by look. Votes: 0

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct. Votes: 0

The instinct to notice changes gives women a tremendous advantage over men. Votes: 0

I feel what is in the air. I go with my instinct. Votes: 0

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry ... Votes: 0

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal. Votes: 0

The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego. Votes: 0

When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant. Votes: 0

Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish. Votes: 0

The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy. Votes: 0

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. Votes: 0

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me. Votes: 0

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that. Votes: 0

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach. Votes: 0

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived. Votes: 0

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men. Votes: 0

Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak. Votes: 0

Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play. Votes: 0

Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive. Votes: 0

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason. Votes: 0

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence. Votes: 0

The instinct, quiet inner voice is the voice of the Holy Spirit. Votes: 0

There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think. Votes: 0

The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. Votes: 0

It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top. Votes: 0

I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that. Votes: 0

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. Votes: 0

I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics. Votes: 0

Gangbanging is a survival instinct, regardless of how anybody tries to paint it. Votes: 0

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. Votes: 0

A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct. Votes: 0

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct. Votes: 0

Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision. Votes: 0

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity. Votes: 0

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life. Votes: 0

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice. Votes: 0

In any situation, listen and follow the first instinct, the sacred inner voice. Votes: 0

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace. Votes: 0

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth. Votes: 0

Let your *need* guide you behavior. *Supress* your instinct to lead... Pursue Rabbit! Votes: 0

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it. Votes: 0

My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true. Votes: 0

The herd instinct is the new chic! It's like belonging to a club!... Votes: 0

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards. Votes: 0

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat. Votes: 0

My killer instinct is so strong that lions call me to take lessons. Votes: 0

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life. Votes: 0

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you. Votes: 0

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct. Votes: 0

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer. Votes: 0

The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death. Votes: 0

You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone. Votes: 0

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee! Votes: 0

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. Votes: 0

There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over. Votes: 0

Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations. Votes: 0

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn. Votes: 0

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn. Votes: 0

Man's strongest instinct is not sex or self-preservation. it's to level the playing field. Votes: 0

Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold. Votes: 0

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. Votes: 0

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity. Votes: 0

You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it. Votes: 0

... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling. Votes: 0

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct. Votes: 0

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct. Votes: 0

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic. Votes: 0

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. Votes: 0

Conformity"”the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. Votes: 0

I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me. Votes: 0

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct. Votes: 0

I don't think about making sexy clothes. It's just my instinct to make them. Votes: 0

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241) Votes: 0

Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body. Votes: 0

I'm a mathematician by education, but I have this other thing. A gut instinct. Votes: 0

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it. Votes: 0

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury. Votes: 0

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive. Votes: 0

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct. Votes: 0

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. Votes: 0

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power. Votes: 0

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct Votes: 0

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination. Votes: 0

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question. Votes: 0

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful. Votes: 0

Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies. Votes: 0

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. Votes: 0

If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right. Votes: 0

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations. Votes: 0

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through. Votes: 0

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. Votes: 0

Each of has a natural instinct to rise like a flame. Lets nurture that instinct Votes: 0

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life. Votes: 0

You just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart. Votes: 0

I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person. Votes: 0

When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better. Votes: 0

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct. Votes: 0

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way. Votes: 0

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason. Votes: 0

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do. Votes: 0

I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses. Votes: 0

Why should a manufacturer bet his money, perhaps the future of his company, on your instinct? Votes: 0

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it. Votes: 0

The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs. Votes: 0

If this was my instinct talking, I didn"Ÿt want to hear what it was saying. Votes: 0

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect. Votes: 0

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man. Votes: 0

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. Votes: 0

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden. Votes: 0

'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool. Votes: 0

The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure. Votes: 0

Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought. Votes: 0

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge. Votes: 0

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know. Votes: 0

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now. Votes: 0

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct. Votes: 0

My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying! Votes: 0

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do. Votes: 0

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. Votes: 0

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money. Votes: 0

When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide. Votes: 0

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness. Votes: 0

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion. Votes: 0

I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested. Votes: 0

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. Votes: 0

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. Votes: 0

I think your main draws are instinct, intuition and empathy... those things that you can't really practice. Votes: 0

Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression. Votes: 0

The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race. Votes: 0

Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither. Votes: 0

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. Votes: 0

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating. Votes: 0

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. Votes: 0

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. Votes: 0

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. Votes: 0

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements. Votes: 0

I suppose every time [something bad happens], I have that instinct to make that joke that distracts. Votes: 0

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct. Votes: 0

By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct. Votes: 0

You have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day. Votes: 0

Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not. Votes: 0

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct. Votes: 0

I have a good instinct for what's real and what's not. I don't have to second-guess myself. Votes: 0

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right. Votes: 0

Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself. Votes: 0

I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't. Votes: 0

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves. Votes: 0

I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist. Votes: 0

Courage is instinct, and heroes are born in the moment. Trust yourself to be great, I do! Votes: 0

Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him. Votes: 0

I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke. Votes: 0

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct. Votes: 0

By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye. Votes: 0

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me. Votes: 0

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires. Votes: 0

I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in. Votes: 0

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later Votes: 0

Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation. Votes: 0

I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies. Votes: 0

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free. Votes: 0

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. Votes: 0

I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality. Votes: 0

I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood. Votes: 0

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it? Votes: 0

Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct. Votes: 0

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival. Votes: 0

The apostles had this instinct: When in trouble, pray. When intimidated, pray. When challenged, pray. When persecuted, pray! Votes: 0

If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought. Votes: 0

I definitely go on gut instinct but it has always had the back up of research and information. Votes: 0

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It’s an animalistic instinct for survival. Votes: 0

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism. Votes: 0

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice. Votes: 0

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak. Votes: 0

The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. Votes: 0

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct. Votes: 0

When teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan. Votes: 0

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. Votes: 0

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope. Votes: 0

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation. Votes: 0

In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman. Votes: 0

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct. Votes: 0

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings. Votes: 0

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. Votes: 0

Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function. Votes: 0

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.' Votes: 0

The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things. Votes: 0

The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing! Votes: 0

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision. Votes: 0

I just don't know how to stitch words in a predictable way sometimes. It's a weird instinct I've developed. Votes: 0

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife. Votes: 0

My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press. Votes: 0

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education. Votes: 0

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands. Votes: 0

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct. Votes: 0

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live. Votes: 0

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Votes: 0

I am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct. Votes: 0

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment. Votes: 0

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy. Votes: 0

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing. Votes: 0

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey. Votes: 0

We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct. Votes: 0

When somebody is doing something really funny, in real life and as a performer, my instinct is to join them. Votes: 0

God gave women instinct and womanliness. Utilized appropriately, the combo effortlessly disorders the mind of any man I've ever met. Votes: 0

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. Votes: 0

Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part. Votes: 0

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. Votes: 0

The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism. Votes: 0

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive. Votes: 0

I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out. Votes: 0

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating. Votes: 0

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct. Votes: 0

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct. Votes: 0

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb. Votes: 0

I didn't have the self-promotion instinct, and I just didn't care about it. I sort of had a "beat" attitude. Votes: 0

Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers. Votes: 0

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds. Votes: 0

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct. Votes: 0

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor. Votes: 0

There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines. Votes: 0

Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize. Votes: 0

Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct. Votes: 0

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy Votes: 0

It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules. Votes: 0

By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm. Votes: 0

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb Votes: 0

In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct. Votes: 0

I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique. Votes: 0

Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility Votes: 0

I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct. Votes: 0

With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex. Votes: 0

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. Votes: 0

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did. Votes: 0

There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex. Votes: 0

Now that this destiny was about to happen, every instinct within him fought against it, realizing he had been fetishizing suicide. Votes: 0

A tendency toward enthusiasm and a chivalrous instinct have more than once been weighed as evidence of a lack of judgment. Votes: 0

Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same. Votes: 0

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct. Votes: 0

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways. Votes: 0

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him. Votes: 0

For me, that's natural. The instinct to score comes naturally and if you have it, you've got to go to it. Votes: 0

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first. Votes: 0

My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities. Votes: 0

A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back. Votes: 0

You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything. Votes: 0

In terms of what we share from our lives, I tend to share everything. My instinct would be to share everything. Votes: 0

Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it. Votes: 0

We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray. Votes: 0

Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible. Votes: 0

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness. Votes: 0

When I hear Jazz, my first instinct is to lean over to the guy next to me and whisper, "Fourth floor, please. Votes: 0

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great. Votes: 0

I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain. Votes: 0

Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths. Votes: 0

One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them. Votes: 0

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why? Votes: 0

As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story. Votes: 0

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write. Votes: 0

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere. Votes: 0

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it. Votes: 0

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds. Votes: 0

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. Votes: 0

Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith. Votes: 0

I guess everybody's different, but I know that everybody's natural instinct is to remember the bad stuff more than the good stuff. Votes: 0

If you do believe in God, and your first instinct in all things must be gratitude: for creation, or love, for mercy. Votes: 0

The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even. Votes: 0

Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt. Votes: 0

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. Votes: 0

Morals "” all correct moral laws "” derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level. Votes: 0

Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct. Votes: 0

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse! Votes: 0

I think motherhood is just about instinct. I remember coming home from the hospital and having no idea what we were doing. Votes: 0

We accept the need to train extensively to fly a plane; but think instinct should be enough for marrying and raising kids. Votes: 0

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. Votes: 0

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct. Votes: 0

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain. Votes: 0

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade. Votes: 0

My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, "No, Mummy, you can't wear that." She's very good. I do trust her instinct. Votes: 0

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence. Votes: 0

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. Votes: 0

When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the window. Votes: 0

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees. Votes: 0

His first instinct was to help me, not sit like a deer in headlights, I now know that Matt isn't one to panic Votes: 0

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand. Votes: 0

I can't stand the idea of missing something. I've got to know what's going on - it's like an animal instinct with me. Votes: 0

I feel like girls should dress down a little bit on the holidays, even though the instinct is to get really dressed up. Votes: 0

Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct. Votes: 0

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child Votes: 0

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. Votes: 0

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit. Votes: 0

Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them? Votes: 0

That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other people. Votes: 0

There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you. Votes: 0

My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy, and move on without any kind of hesitation at all. Votes: 0

When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food. Votes: 0

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. Votes: 0

Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains. Votes: 0

Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them. Votes: 0

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been. Votes: 0

We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct. Votes: 0

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction. Votes: 0

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history. Votes: 0

Every time I trust my instincts I land on my feet and every time I don't, I go, "Why didn't I trust my instinct?" Votes: 0

Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable. Votes: 0

There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it. Votes: 0

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil. Votes: 0

Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct. Votes: 0

The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes. Votes: 0

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true. Votes: 0

Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. Votes: 0

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman. Votes: 0

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious. Votes: 0

Everyone is born with an instinct of success, and ability to make it, but only the ones who think out of the box succeed. Votes: 0

Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning. Votes: 0

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason. Votes: 0

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have. Votes: 0

From when I was really young one of the first things I did was to perform and do shows. It was like a natural instinct. Votes: 0

Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music? Votes: 0

Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost. Votes: 0

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes. Votes: 0

The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct. Votes: 0

I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment. Votes: 0

A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God. Votes: 0

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in. Votes: 0

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do. Votes: 0

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate. Votes: 0

I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard. Votes: 0

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create. Votes: 0

I get a lot more abuse in England. That's just a general English attitude. I did the same thing to famous people. It's just your instinct. Votes: 0

That`s instinct, you catch and you shoot. I`ve done it hundreds of thousands of times in my driveway. It`s what I`ve practiced. Votes: 0

... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. Votes: 0

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in. Votes: 0

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct. Votes: 0

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own. Votes: 0

I was shown a picture by Cézanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and colours. Votes: 0

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook. Votes: 0

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it. Votes: 0

When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me. Votes: 0

Everything I've done in my life has been by instinct. I never had any doubt I could do anything... I always knew I was going to be a writer. Votes: 0

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip. Votes: 0

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God. Votes: 0

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct. Votes: 0