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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 on my gut instinct.

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

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'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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

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

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the slave trade or lynching, the instinct is to cover it up, to get rid of it, to destroy it.