Best 601 quotes in «instinct quotes» category

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It’s an animalistic instinct for survival.

[Donald Trump's] instincts are way more favorable to the LGBTQ community than any other Republican that was on the stage.

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.

Donald Trump really has authoritarian, dictatorial instincts.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

Dont listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, theyd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.

Doubt everything [...]. Doubt everything at least once. What you decide to keep, you'll be able to be confident of. And what you decide to ditch, you will replace with what your instincts tell you is true.

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.

Every time I trust my instincts I land on my feet and every time I don't, I go, "Why didn't I trust my instinct?

Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.

Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with the fear.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

Gangbanging is a survival instinct, regardless of how anybody tries to paint it.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Go with your gut instincts even if it is contrarian to what the "experts" suggest.

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

Go with your instinct and your gut. It sounds cliché, but never give up and just keep on. If you really believe in it, you have to just dive in and go for it.

Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.

His instincts should have warned him sooner than they had, but thanks to his agimortus, he'd been hobbled like a brood mare waiting to be mounted by a randy stallion

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

Hillary Clinton's bad instincts and her bad judgment, something pointed out by Bernie Sanders, are what caused so many of the disasters unfolding today.

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

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

How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

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

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

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

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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