Best 601 quotes in «instinct quotes» category

- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.

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.

The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.

The herd instinct is the new chic! It's like belonging to a club!

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

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

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure.

The intention of showing myself to the world has always been to be how I want to be and how I'm comfortable in the world, never to be anonymous. Right now, I'm just going with my instincts, and this is what I feel like doing. I'm always honest in what I put across.

There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.

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

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

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

The only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. It was only really one time.

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

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.

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

There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

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.

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

There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from within. And yet the same instinct tells us that this change is a recovery of that which is deepest, most original, most personal in ourselves. To be born again is not to become somebody else, but to become ourselves.

There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.

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

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

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

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

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

This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

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.

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

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.

Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn't lie.

Trust your instincts, trust your judgment.

Trust your instincts, and take control.

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

Understand the "Gretzky Factor": Cultivate an instinct, a "touch", call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the "puck" is now and where it will be soon.

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts.

We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

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

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.

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.