Instinct Quotes

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

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

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

How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it's hard to hear sometimes, because it's a noisy world and there's a lot of people talking to you.

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

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.

You should always trust the instincts of children.

I think I sing with more emotion but with less technical perfection. I prefer to sing with my natural voice and use my instinct - it's easier for me to give emotion.

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

Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their coping mechanism.

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

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

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

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

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

Writing is above all a question of instinct.

A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature works of others especially famous persons.

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

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

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

What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens, my first instinct is to go to the piano and bang something out.

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

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

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

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

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

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

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

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

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

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

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

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?"

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

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.

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

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

Caution is the instinct of the weaker animal.

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.

There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.

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

The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.

No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more of a small shop mindset well into the twentieth century, for instance.

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

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

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

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