Instinct Quotes

When you don’t become fixated on winning the prize or appearing successful, and instead pursue your passions, then you will discover the fulfillment that comes from living by instinct.

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.

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.

Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.

Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

Any person by nature has inherent capabilities. You have to trust your instincts and act with spontaneity.

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

You've got to play with that killer instinct, man. You've got to hate that guy across from you. Then after the game is over, tell him what a nice guy he is. Shake his hand. Especially if you win.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

I’ ve always been a fan of the basics. After you have a good solid foundation of Jiu-Jitsu, the rest comes by instinct. You create, invent. The rest is easy. The difficult part is the beginning.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

People do what they think works for them, but the sport is about instinct, movement, balance, power... it's too animalistic to get rigid about your training.

Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.

I feel what is in the air. I go with my instinct.

From when I was really young one of the first things I did was to perform and do shows. It was like a natural instinct.

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It’s an animalistic instinct for survival.

When you look at the Cross, what do you see? You see God’s awesome faithfulness. Nothing – not even the instinct to spare His own Son – will turn him back from keeping His word.

Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world.

Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?