Instinct Quotes

The warrior instinct comes in, the heart, determination, the will to win. Even though you're rocked you still have to fight hard, to come back.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.

The 'look of love' not only communicates our feeling of love for someone but also reflects our instinct to do whatever it takes to make that person happy.

Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.

It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

It's a human instinct to be known.

Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar taste and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

I always believe your instinct is the most correct instinct.

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

I've always kind of done exactly what my instincts said.

Often you have to rely on intuition.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things.

Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.

You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.

I'm a cook, and I'm like, "a dash of this, a pinch of that." I cook with a lot of passion and instinct. So that's the hardest thing - to put an actual recipe together.

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

I've had a great life following my faith and my instincts.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

God gave women instinct and womanliness. Utilized appropriately, the combo effortlessly disorders the mind of any man I've ever met.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

I’ve never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn’t feel right or isn’t going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.

Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.

If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.

I rely a great deal on animal instincts.

I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.