Best 601 quotes in «instinct quotes» category

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

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

How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.

Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content.

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

Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.

Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

I act with my gut instincts.

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.

I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I'm not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the little things that make you into who you are.

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

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

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

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 really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I follow my instincts and my excitement.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!