Instinct Quotes

I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along.

It's gut instinct that helps me determine how to write a story. I love the surreal because I am faced with the challenge of making the unbelievable believable. That challenge is thrilling.

You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

My gut and intuition told me it wasn't time to do this.

For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.

It pays to trust your instinct.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.

Intuition is more than knowledge, and truth comes pure from the heart.

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

I think motherhood is just about instinct. I remember coming home from the hospital and having no idea what we were doing.

Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.

Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits - good and bad. So the key to the game is to exploit the bad habits of your opponent.

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

I could make Basic Instinct 16. If guys will keep thinking I'm hot, I might turn it into a TV series.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

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 the fear.

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.

The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.

Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all female dogs have, she tries to lick my ears off.

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.

The Killer instinct is not perceived by words, but by look.

In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.

Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.