Instinct Quotes

Its the difference between instinct and intuition.

There's no wrong move on stage. You can do no wrong if you just trust your instincts.

If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.

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

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

Go with your instinct and your gut. It sounds cliché, but never give up and just keep on. If you really believe in it, you have to just dive in and go for it.

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

Your instinct is your true god. Follow it.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold.

In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

The truth of your instincts is the root of your foundation.

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

Survival is my primary instinct...it's out of my control. It's stronger than me. It's an outside force, a voice that says 'do this for your life or it will devour you.'

Sometimes my natural instincts take over and I just go overboard.

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.

Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.