Instinct Quotations | Page 5

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

I have really good instincts about friends.

...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.

It's a human instinct to be known.

I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.

I work on instinct. It's my best adviser.

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

So much of parenting is following your instincts, and taking the time to actually know your child.

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

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

We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct.

If you're not comfortable with a strong woman you're not comfortable with your own feminine instincts. You're not comfortable, period. You're going to be threatened by everything that's not exactly like you are ... and that is the measure any man.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

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

Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!

Trust your instincts, trust your judgment.

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

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

I live on my gut instinct.

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

One thing I have learned is that I should trust my 'gut' instincts. Ultimately, only we know what is best for us.

That`s instinct, you catch and you shoot. I`ve done it hundreds of thousands of times in my driveway. It`s what I`ve practiced.

Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses.

I will follow my instincts, and be myself for good or ill.

I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener. There you have it. We are not of the same trade at all and so how can your rules fit me?

Donald Trump is an unstable charlatan who is appealing to the worst instincts in people, and I believe ultimately the American people are going to reject that.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

Its the difference between instinct and intuition,

I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

You can't worry about instinct. You have to do what you feel is right at the time, do your homework and make the calls. You have to live with the calls you make and if your heart is in it, at least you feel good at the end of the night, no matter what happens.

The kid is the smartest baseball player I've ever coached. He has a great instinct and a great feel for the game. He makes things happen for us.

The ultimate test of the laughing instinct is that a man should always be ready to laugh at himself

You don't have time to think about things with something like that. It's just instinct. I saw the ball and just ran to a spot where I thought I had a shot at it.

The herd instinct is as strong with multimillionaires as it is with any two- or four-legged animal.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship / a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

You've got to have killer instinct. For the first time all year, we did that. You can't trade baskets, especially at this time because that's when you get beat.

The first instinct of power is the retention of power, and under a Constitution that requires periodic elections, that is best achieved by the suppression of election-time speech,

Humankind has not evolved in its most basic instincts much beyond the caveman era. Yet every attempt to change that is met with scorn.

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

Trust your first instinct.

I’m adding ‘canine’ to my searches,” I said. “And ‘instinct.’” “Whatever. I’m adding ‘lunatic.

The images [of The Kite Runner grafic] were created in Fabio Celoni's mind. I chose to let him take the lead. Fabio and I did exchange an e-mail or two, but it was my intention to step out of the way and let his artistic instincts take over.

Systems die; instincts remain.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

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.

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

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.

One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.

All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.

Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.

Even when a person is frightened by threats into doing something, the threats work only because the person has an instinct of fear. If he has not, or if, though having it, it is under his own control, the threat has no more influence upon him than light has in causing a person to see who has no eyes.

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

I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome — and so I live. Would I had never lived!

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.

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

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

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

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.

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

Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

My instincts are not comedic.

My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, "No, Mummy, you can't wear that." She's very good. I do trust her instinct.

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

The best decisions aren't made with your mind, but with your Instinct.

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning.

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

instinct leads me to another flow

I believe in following your instincts with the people that you like and who you like to be with.

The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong.

I have a confidence because my research shows that I should just really trust my instincts.

Instinct is the direct connection with truth.

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

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

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.

I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

I don't have a lot of physical comedy instincts. I'm more verbal.

Follow your instincts and live with the consequences.

Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you.

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

I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.

Stick to your instincts.

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.

Its time to trust my instincts, close my eyes and leap

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

Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

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

You have to trust your own instincts about what is appropriate and what is not appropriate and trust your own feelings about what you can and can't show for yourself, and it'll be different for everybody.

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.

I don't follow fashion and I don't follow trends, I just follow my instincts