Best 601 quotes in «instinct quotes» category

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.

I think the good news for me in life is that I really trust my instincts when I come to work. Maybe less in life and in love, but in work and in comedic beats, I feel pretty confident.

It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

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

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

It pays to trust your instinct.

It's amazing how sudden the effect is - it must be the result of a deep atavistic mating urge buried inside us. A glance and you think: 'Yes, this is the one, this one is right for me.' Every instinct in your body seems to sing in unison.

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle.

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

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.

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

I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.

It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.

It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

I've been told throughout my career that I have good instincts, and the idea of discovery and development in terms of a new artist is so exciting to me. Being only 25 and in a position where I might be able to grant opportunities is really cool.

I was a coward on instinct.

I've had a great life following my faith and my instincts.

I’ve never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn’t feel right or isn’t going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.

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

I was an English major in college, I went to a creative-writing program, and all my life, I really read and thought about fiction as a craft and an art form. I feel like I know a lot about it, and can trust my instincts.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

I would challenge the statement that my scientific instincts are any less rigorous than [Richard Dawkins]. The difference is that my presumption of the possibility of God and therefore the supernatural is not zero, and yours is.

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

I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.

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

John Podesta said Hillary Linton has terrible instincts. Bernie Sanders said she has bad judgment. I agree with both.

Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.

Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).

Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

Let's suppose we all just materialized on Earth and there was a bunch of potatoes on the ground, okay? There's just six of us. Only six humans. We come into a clearing and there's potatoes on the ground. Now, my instinct would be, let's everybody get some potatoes. "Everybody got a potato? Joey didn't get a potato! He's small, he can't hold as many potatoes. Give Joey some of your potatoes." "No, these are my potatoes!" That's the Republicans. "I collected more of them, I got a bigger pile of potatoes, they're mine. If you want some of them, you're going to have to give me something.

Let passion be your muse. Let her guide and teach you to trust your instincts.

Let your *need* guide you behavior. *Supress* your instinct to lead... Pursue Rabbit!

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

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