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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

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.

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 a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

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

Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.

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

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Intuition is more than knowledge, and truth comes pure from the heart.

Intuition always has our best interest at heart.

In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

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