Instinct Quotes

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

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

I know I have pretty good instincts.

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

Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

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

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

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.

I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.

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

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.

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

Your body has this instinct to start healing and then you go back to work and it hurts even more. It's almost better to keep your body messed-up on a consistent basis.

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

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

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

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.

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.

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

Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself without love, without pleasure.

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.

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

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

Our need to knock celebrities is...Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's animalistic.

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

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

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

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

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.

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

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

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

I don’t follow fashion and I don’t follow trends, I just follow my instincts...

Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.

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

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

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

Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.

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?

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

I act with my gut instincts.

This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.

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

Survival instincts are one of those things that never die.

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

Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.

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