Best 601 quotes in «instinct quotes» category

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 work on instinct. It's my best adviser.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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).

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.

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

Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile.

Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals.

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

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.

Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!

My business savvy it’s instinct. Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it’s a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it’s wrong.

My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, "No, Mummy, you can't wear that." She's very good. I do trust her instinct.

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

My gut and intuition told me it wasn't time to do this.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things

My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.

My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

My instincts are not comedic.

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

Nature is so huge. I mean, you can't even look one way! Everything is huge. That was my natural instinct, to create huge art, to create huge pieces. And to me, I still could create bigger works. The opportunity doesn't come along to do anything any bigger. So I've worked as big as I've had the opportunity to work, basically.

Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.

Never give up, trust your instincts!

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts.

None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.