Best 601 quotes in «instinct quotes» category

I definitely go on gut instinct but it has always had the back up of research and information.

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!

I don’t follow fashion and I don’t follow trends, I just follow my instincts...

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

I don't know why it is, but I do like dancing in the extreme situations. I like that noise, I like that intensity. For some reason, it's what I respond to in terms of my taste and of my 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.

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.

I don't really follow market research. In the end, I respond to my own instincts.

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

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

I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.

If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

I follow my instincts and my excitement.

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.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

If youre serious about what youre doing, youve got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you wont reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back.

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.

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

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

I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.

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

I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.

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.

I have always followed my instincts when it comes to music and life in general. They were telling me very loudly that it was time for John D., Hallmark and I to get back together.

I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

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

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

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

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?

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!

I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.

I live on my gut instinct.

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.

I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.

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

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

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

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.

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.

I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way. ~Train Heartnet

I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

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

I'm a firm believer in research, but I'm also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside.