Quotes about Instincts

Instincts and intuition should never be ignored. Votes: 3

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude Votes: 3

Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night. Votes: 3

Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt. Votes: 3

Some of my instincts are reprehensible. Votes: 2

I only give expression to the instincts from my soul. Votes: 2

All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone. Votes: 2

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things. Votes: 2

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

I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more. Votes: 2

I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts. Votes: 2

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. 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

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost. Votes: 2

Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts. Votes: 2

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too. Votes: 2

In the end I do respond to my own instincts. Sometimes they're successful, and obviously sometimes they're not. But you have to, I think, remain true to what you believe in. Votes: 2

There are seasons in life. Don't ever let anyone try to deny you the joy of one season because they believe you should stay in another season... Listen to yourself. Trust your instincts. Keep your perspective. Votes: 2

I don't think I am that hands-on. I'm much more of a believer in finding a great team of people and trusting them to follow their instincts. They work better when they feel they have freedom and they are trusted. Votes: 2

By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it. Votes: 2

I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media. Votes: 2

When you have a dream that you can't let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you're willing to do that. 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 think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions. Votes: 2

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble. Votes: 2

We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it. Votes: 2

I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door. Votes: 2

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. Votes: 1

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory. Votes: 1

I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage. Votes: 1

Trust your instincts. Votes: 0

Systems die; instincts remain. Votes: 0

I trust my instincts. Votes: 0

Stick to your instincts. Votes: 0

My instincts are not comedic. Votes: 0

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill. Votes: 0

Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn't lie. Votes: 0

Trust your instincts, and take control. Votes: 0

But death's acquisitive instincts will win. Votes: 0

Everything is instincts when returning kicks. Votes: 0

Never give up, trust your instincts! Votes: 0

I act with my gut instincts. Votes: 0

Trust your instincts, trust your judgment. Votes: 0

What has happened to America's survival instincts? Votes: 0

Donald Trump really has authoritarian, dictatorial instincts. Votes: 0

I have really good instincts about friends. Votes: 0

We heed no instincts but our own. Votes: 0

I follow my instincts and my excitement. Votes: 0

You have to go with your instincts. Votes: 0

I'm confident and I trust my instincts. Votes: 0

I know I have pretty good instincts. Votes: 0

Follow your instincts and live with the consequences. Votes: 0

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. Votes: 0

You should always trust the instincts of children. Votes: 0

Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Votes: 0

Always listen to your inner voice, your instincts Votes: 0

Listen to your instincts, then do the opposite. Votes: 0

I rely a great deal on animal instincts. Votes: 0

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. Votes: 0

Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others... Votes: 0

My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature. Votes: 0

Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina. Votes: 0

Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things. Votes: 0

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts. Votes: 0

I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts. Votes: 0

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. Votes: 0

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work. Votes: 0

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts. Votes: 0

Follow your instincts, and handle all with respect and diplomacy. Votes: 0

Spontaneity and instincts are key factors to a memorable party. Votes: 0

Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts. Votes: 0

Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares. Votes: 0

..love cushions all your irritations, unnatural instincts, hatreds and immaturities." Votes: 0

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts. Votes: 0

Survival instincts are one of those things that never die. Votes: 0

I've always kind of done exactly what my instincts said. Votes: 0

When there's no turning back, your instincts will lead you forward. Votes: 0

Its time to trust my instincts, close my eyes and leap Votes: 0

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us Votes: 0

I've had a great life following my faith and my instincts. Votes: 0

Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses. Votes: 0

The truth of your instincts is the root of your foundation. Votes: 0

Never presume that I will not act on my worst instincts. Votes: 0

Sometimes my natural instincts take over and I just go overboard. Votes: 0

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day. Votes: 0

Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful. Votes: 0

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life. Votes: 0

I don't have a lot of physical comedy instincts. I'm more verbal. Votes: 0

I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more. Votes: 0

Never to be frightened of taking risks and always follow your instincts! Votes: 0

I will follow my instincts, and be myself for good or ill. Votes: 0

There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts. Votes: 0

Choices, Choices, Choices!Listen to your instincts; you will make the best-choices. Votes: 0

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature. Votes: 0

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning. Votes: 0

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning. Votes: 0

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts. Votes: 0

A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant. Votes: 0

Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere. Votes: 0

Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts. Votes: 0

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities. Votes: 0

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious. Votes: 0

The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live. Votes: 0

Take people's advice and guidance in the beginning, but always follow your instincts first Votes: 0

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people. Votes: 0

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. Votes: 0

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended. Votes: 0

The more knowledge you have, the more you're free to rely on your instincts. Votes: 0

I don't follow fashion and I don't follow trends, I just follow my instincts Votes: 0

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts. Votes: 0

If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation. Votes: 0

Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on them Votes: 0

You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts. Votes: 0

Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you. Votes: 0

I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts. Votes: 0

Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts. Votes: 0

Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. Votes: 0

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected. Votes: 0

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation. Votes: 0

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important. Votes: 0

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect. Votes: 0

In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts. Votes: 0

Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts. Votes: 0

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment. Votes: 0

Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts. Votes: 0

Let passion be your muse. Let her guide and teach you to trust your instincts. Votes: 0

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills. Votes: 0

I don't really follow market research. In the end, I respond to my own instincts. Votes: 0

Go with your gut instincts even if it is contrarian to what the "experts" suggest. Votes: 0

If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts. Votes: 0

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. Votes: 0

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity. Votes: 0

What better way to discover the unknown than to follow your instincts instead of your plans. Votes: 0

By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves. Votes: 0

Sometimes you just have to trust your instincts; it may be all you have to trust. Votes: 0

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. Votes: 0

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism. Votes: 0

Marketers and executives are very different from the average consumer, so your instincts may mislead you. Votes: 0

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts. Votes: 0

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires. Votes: 0

Listening to your instincts, while being the easiest, can also be the hardest thing to do. Votes: 0

I have a confidence because my research shows that I should just really trust my instincts. Votes: 0

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships. Votes: 0

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. Votes: 0

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things Votes: 0

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. Votes: 0

Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity. Votes: 0

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions. Votes: 0

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light. Votes: 0

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy. Votes: 0

Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs! Votes: 0

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts. Votes: 0

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. Votes: 0

Any person by nature has inherent capabilities. You have to trust your instincts and act with spontaneity. Votes: 0

Trust what your instincts are telling you, it's your souls voice pointing you in the right direction. Votes: 0

I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along. Votes: 0

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. Votes: 0

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them. Votes: 0

Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts. Votes: 0

I think everyone should follow their instincts, and go with what they feel, and follow their heart. Votes: 0

So much of parenting is following your instincts, and taking the time to actually know your child. Votes: 0

Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category. Votes: 0

For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion. Votes: 0

There's no wrong move on stage. You can do no wrong if you just trust your instincts. Votes: 0

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature. Votes: 0

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts. Votes: 0

Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself. Votes: 0

It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle. Votes: 0

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys. Votes: 0

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble. Votes: 0

Follow your instincts - you never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them. Votes: 0

I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way. ~Train Heartnet Votes: 0

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way. Votes: 0

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts. Votes: 0

I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do. Votes: 0

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Votes: 0

My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes. Votes: 0

We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts. Votes: 0

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you. Votes: 0

We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood. Votes: 0

When you know something is wrong for you, you have to make difficult decisions and trust your instincts. Votes: 0

John Podesta said Hillary Linton has terrible instincts. Bernie Sanders said she has bad judgment. I agree with both. Votes: 0

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes. Votes: 0

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts. Votes: 0

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it. Votes: 0

My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything? Votes: 0

Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness. Votes: 0

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts. Votes: 0

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors. Votes: 0

Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation. Votes: 0

A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance. Votes: 0

I believe in following your instincts with the people that you like and who you like to be with. Votes: 0

The biggest thing I've learned is to listen to my own gut. I have learned to trust my instincts. Votes: 0

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals. Votes: 0

You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts. Votes: 0

You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it. Votes: 0

To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts. Votes: 0

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. Votes: 0

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.' Votes: 0

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. Votes: 0

Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in. Votes: 0

Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit. Votes: 0

If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting Votes: 0

Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us. Votes: 0

I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts. Votes: 0

There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts. Votes: 0

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes. Votes: 0

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person. Votes: 0

Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier. Votes: 0

...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from. Votes: 0

I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts. Votes: 0

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative. Votes: 0

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral. Votes: 0

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive. Votes: 0

I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts. Votes: 0

Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night. Votes: 0

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts. Votes: 0

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight. Votes: 0

Some plays just come out of me, just on instincts. I'll make a play and wonder, How did I do that? Votes: 0

Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment. Votes: 0

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up. Votes: 0

I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc. Votes: 0

Keep trying. Stay humble, Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Votes: 0

Before you look to blame another, look within yourself, for at some point you have not listened to your own instincts. Votes: 0

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Votes: 0

Feeling fear is a good sign that your survival instincts are intact. You need to appreciate the dangers to stay safe. Votes: 0

My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good. Votes: 0

The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts. Votes: 0

Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog. Votes: 0

It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection. Votes: 0

Intelligent men never do a business; only a fool kills his own beautiful instincts for the sake of a word profit. Votes: 0

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment. Votes: 0

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. Votes: 0

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. Votes: 0

Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits. Votes: 0

How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility? Votes: 0

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Votes: 0

One thing that remains consistent throughout anything I do in life really is remaining true to myself and trusting my gut instincts. Votes: 0

Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter ! 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

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 don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process. Votes: 0

There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees. Votes: 0

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark. Votes: 0

You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good. Votes: 0

I have always trusted my instincts, I took some bold decisions in my life.....many people may say they were crazy risks. Votes: 0

You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts. Votes: 0

One thing I have learned is that I should trust my 'gut' instincts. Ultimately, only we know what is best for us. Votes: 0

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist. Votes: 0

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first! Votes: 0

I think for every parent, they know their kids better than anybody else, and they have to just trust their own instincts. Votes: 0

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. Votes: 0

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful. Votes: 0

I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts. Votes: 0

Who's to say what would have happened if I had trusted my instincts and moved to New York like I thought I would. Votes: 0

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation. Votes: 0

Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts. Votes: 0

The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly. Votes: 0

Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution. Votes: 0

By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you. Votes: 0

Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you. Votes: 0

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people. Votes: 0

Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle. Votes: 0

Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser. Votes: 0

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time. Votes: 0

I think for folks of color the key to combatting racism period is a) trusting their instincts and b) solidarity with one another. Votes: 0

Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual. Votes: 0

To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it. Votes: 0

You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry. Votes: 0

Things go wrong when the people who control that world stop listening to their own instincts and start catering to their fan base. Votes: 0

Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day. Votes: 0

What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things... Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts. Votes: 0

Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on. 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

Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise. Votes: 0

Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. Votes: 0

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. Votes: 0

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis. Votes: 0

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. Votes: 0

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished. Votes: 0

You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion. Votes: 0

Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others. Votes: 0

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. Votes: 0

When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids. Votes: 0

I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life! Votes: 0

As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts. Votes: 0

Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years. Votes: 0

Humankind has not evolved in its most basic instincts much beyond the caveman era. Yet every attempt to change that is met with scorn. Votes: 0

You know your gut instincts are spot on about a person when you can also detect a water source in the soil beneath them. Votes: 0

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us. Votes: 0

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them. Votes: 0

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn't grow out of either of our species' two basic instincts: survival and reproduction. Votes: 0

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people. Votes: 0

When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time. Votes: 0

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill. Votes: 0

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. Votes: 0

Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow. Votes: 0

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate. Votes: 0

When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong. Votes: 0

The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation. Votes: 0

It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad masses of its adherents. Votes: 0

It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it. Votes: 0

It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child. Votes: 0

It was very important to me to choose a director like Gary [Ross], whose instincts come from character, who's a storyteller, and who puts characters first. Votes: 0

The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly. Votes: 0

Listen to your heart.Listen to your instincts.Listen to inner voice.It is your true self. It will guide you to make the right choices. Votes: 0

I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts ... Votes: 0

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. Votes: 0

Donald Trump is an unstable charlatan who is appealing to the worst instincts in people, and I believe ultimately the American people are going to reject that. Votes: 0

Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be. Votes: 0

Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential. Votes: 0

Morrigan "Don't worry I'm following my instincts." Birkita "Perhaps you could find a way to prudently follow your instincts" Morrigan "I'm eighteen, nothing I do is prudent Votes: 0

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that helped strengthen communities. Votes: 0

You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that lie within you. Votes: 0

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: 0

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: 0

The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of sport." Votes: 0

Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award that recognized my artistic instincts. Votes: 0

Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true. Votes: 0

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt? Votes: 0

Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera to see Votes: 0

My family especially has always taught me to be myself and not let other people's opinions change me. To always believe my instincts and follow my heart. Votes: 0

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: 0

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them. Votes: 0

Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like someone else. Votes: 0

You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end. Votes: 0

Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity. Votes: 0

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food. Votes: 0

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual. Votes: 0

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts. Votes: 0

There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them. Votes: 0

I want to be able to discuss craft but I also want to teach writers to trust their instincts and learn to listen to themselves above all others. Votes: 0

Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content. Votes: 0

I was now privy to how a calm, average , peace-loving individual can suddenly get infected with a special kind of crazy. Higher reasoning is replaced with killer animal instincts. Votes: 0

Life is a gamble. There are no sureties. If you want something badly, you'd have to trust your heart and your instincts and then take a leap of faith. Votes: 0

It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times. Votes: 0

I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there. Votes: 0

If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair it is this - I am not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people. Votes: 0

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images. Votes: 0

I dont like doing whats expected. Ive always done best when Ive listened to my instincts rather than following convention or doing what other people think I should do. Votes: 0

The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess "“ and in business and in life in general "“ is not trusting their instincts enough. Votes: 0

A lot of amazing comedians that I've worked with just really follow their instincts and you can't really teach someone comedic timing. And you just kind of have it. Votes: 0

You can find the way by yourself naturally, you just need a guide to tell you to be careful, to not do this to impress people, just follow your instincts. Votes: 0

Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight. Votes: 0

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society. Votes: 0

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels. Votes: 0

The day people will start using their learner's instincts instead of the survival instincts in the education, our society will no longer be a place where education kills your knowledge. Votes: 0

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior. Votes: 0

Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas. Votes: 0

Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts. Votes: 0

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice. Votes: 0

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts. Votes: 0

To me, I always listen to what my instincts tell me. The biggest mistakes I've ever made is when I've ignored what I know to be true in my heart. Votes: 0

I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks. Votes: 0

His instincts should have warned him sooner than they had, but thanks to his agimortus, he'd been hobbled like a brood mare waiting to be mounted by a randy stallion Votes: 0

Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness. Votes: 0

You can take the smartest kid at Wharton, the one who gets straight A's and has a 170 IQ, and if he doesn't have the instincts, he'll never be a successful entrepreneur. Votes: 0

The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy. Votes: 0

Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart, right from the start, go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness. Votes: 0

When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect... Votes: 0

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life. Votes: 0

Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the time it comes out where we started. Votes: 0

I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparation, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woods lore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures. Votes: 0

Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there. Votes: 0

Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll have a panic attack. Inside is where safety is. Votes: 0

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old. Votes: 0

Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown. Votes: 0

It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts down, and you follow your instincts. Or, at least, you. Votes: 0

I suppose my understanding of villains is that they're just people who are infected by all of the darker instincts - that they haven't got the discipline to make the right choices. Votes: 0

I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman's motherly instincts. Votes: 0

I always tell actors when they go in for an audition: Don't be afraid to do what your instincts tell you. You may not get the part, but people will take notice. Votes: 0

A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts. Votes: 0

You never have to second guess a person or your feelings and instincts about that person if you pay attention to their actions, not solely their words - actions always speak louder. Votes: 0

The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And thats a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying. Votes: 0

To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external. Votes: 0

The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying. Votes: 0

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace? Votes: 0

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time. Votes: 0

Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone. Votes: 0

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. Votes: 0

If anyone tells you that you're too old to be an entrepreneur or that you have the wrong background, don't listen to them. Go with your gut instincts and pursue your passions. Votes: 0

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life. Votes: 0

Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that they can be happy, generous, and good. Votes: 0

If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script. Votes: 0

I've never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn't feel right or isn't going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it. Votes: 0

Real men don't do pickup lines just to sweep off every girls' feet. They do and trust their own instincts knowing what the girls' wants and needs. Vying to win their hearts. Votes: 0

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything. Votes: 0

I'm a firm believer in research, but I'm also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside. Votes: 0

I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story. Votes: 0

Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts. Votes: 0

What promotes math progress even more than new ideas are new technical tools and habits of thought that encapsulate existing ideas, so that insights of one generation become the instincts of the next. Votes: 0

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. Votes: 0

To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun! Votes: 0

I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really trust my instincts. I like to talk and talk and talk until we have to do it. I feel the same about theater. Votes: 0

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being. Votes: 0

Don't listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, they'd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance. Votes: 0

I don’t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isn’t good, or isn’t useful for natural creative instincts Votes: 0

Dont listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, theyd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance. Votes: 0

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. Votes: 0

It is founded on the worst instincts of mankind. At its best, it is intolerant and bigoted. At its worst, it is sadistic and brutal. Between these two poles it has its existence. Votes: 0

I don't know if I'm teaching my kids right, but you have to go with your own instincts. You can't be so sure that other people are going to do right by you. Votes: 0

That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting. Votes: 0

It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the highest. - A bee doubtless would [use] ... instincts as a criteria. Votes: 0

I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener. There you have it. We are not of the same trade at all and so how can your rules fit me? Votes: 0

Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a will of his own, he chooses between incompatible ends. Votes: 0

What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world? Votes: 0

How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise. Votes: 0

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings. Votes: 0

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards. Votes: 0

I think trusting your instincts and doing what is right by you is the most important thing, because at the end of the day you go to bed and you wake up as you. Votes: 0

Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself. Votes: 0

I played sports, so I understood quickly I shouldn't be eating fast food because it was slowing me down, making me feel lousy and lazy, and my instincts were not working as they should. Votes: 0

I guess on a base level that's one of the first parental instincts that you have with children in Australia is learn to swim. Not only learn to swim but learn to swim strong. Votes: 0

I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts. Votes: 0

Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a higher self whose rationale he doubts and does not understand. Votes: 0

Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good. Votes: 0

When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely in your own instincts, you are guaranteeing your own failure - even if you end up having commercial success. Votes: 0

I'm always afraid going into strange places, but I also choose carefully and listen to my instincts. These were men I could trust. I'm a pretty good judge of crazy versus sad. I prefer sad. Votes: 0

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count. Votes: 0

I have always followed my instincts when it comes to music and life in general. They were telling me very loudly that it was time for John D., Hallmark and I to get back together. Votes: 0

Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate. Votes: 0

They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers. Votes: 0

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. Votes: 0