Instinct Quotes

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.

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

Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.

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

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.

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

I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.

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

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

I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus, they suck the life right out of a party.

Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all female dogs have, she tries to lick my ears off.

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

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

Reason is the servant of instinct.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

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

First of all I trust my own instinct, experience that I gained over years and feeling when the moment is right for buying shares. That is what one calls intuition.

And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of The Good Wife.

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.

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

- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.

Instinct seeks satisfaction. Love is free of all demands.

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

Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not dispel it immediately.

Management is like making love. There's heat from both sides. You have an instinct to get there. You have no idea what you're really in for, but you do it anyway.

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

Follow your instincts, and handle all with respect and diplomacy.

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.

Instinct is the direct connection with truth.

The only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. It was only really one time.

Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.

Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

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

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

Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.

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