Instinct Quotes

If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.

I think your main draws are instinct, intuition and empathy... those things that you can't really practice.

The first instinct is love.

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.

Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.

I know Roomba is a vacuum... But, whenever it's mentioned, my instinct is to be excited about a new fun party game involving rhythm and friends!

It's funny, but I never knew I was hot or could be beautiful until I saw 'Basic Instinct,' and I was so shocked when I saw how pretty they made me.

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

That is what's disconcerting about working on the show, you can't seem to get an instinct about what works and what doesn't. It happens a lot, and in different ways.

Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a natural instinct to help the greater whole.

Always trust your instinct.

I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard.

I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.

I didn't have the self-promotion instinct, and I just didn't care about it. I sort of had a "beat" attitude.

Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct.

Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.

The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.

I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss."

There is this inherent human instinct that the usual way you control trolling is you force people to use their real identities. So there's less trolling on Facebook, for example.

Stick to your instincts.

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct

I'm not worried about what's in fashion, what's not in fashion, what are the colors of the season. I go with my gut instinct because every time I haven't it's been a mistake.

By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye.

Understand the "Gretzky Factor": Cultivate an instinct, a "touch", call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the "puck" is now and where it will be soon.

If there’'s one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair, it’s this: I’m not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.

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

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.

I was a coward on instinct.

Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced.

By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.

I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.

A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.

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

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.

Act on your instinct. It is the spirit of your divinity.

I do not like the situation but must endure to fulfil the dream.

Hang on! God will strength in any act of your pursuit.

When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.

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

Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.

Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.

Imagination is the sacred intuition.

Animals are what we are and animals are what we'll stay.