Instinct Quotes

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

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

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.

Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.

Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart.

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

We heed no instincts but our own.

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

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

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

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

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

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

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

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose.

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

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.

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.

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

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?

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

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

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

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

My instincts are not comedic.

I think my instinct creatively is to make things that are very funny and happy and silly. And in this moment where the world is very scary, I feel like my role is to make people laugh really hard.

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

A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.

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.

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

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

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

I’m adding ‘canine’ to my searches,” I said. “And ‘instinct.’” “Whatever. I’m adding ‘lunatic.

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

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

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

No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct.

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

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

I don't have a philosophy. I have an instinct. I accept stuff that I like.

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

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

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!

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

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.

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

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

Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.