Best 601 quotes in «instinct quotes» category

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.

People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced.

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.

September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

Studios are attracted by making money, and they're also trying to simplify things, going with the genre thing. The gambling instincts of a few years ago where you might make some thousands or a few hundred, it's nothing now.

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

Sorry. An overdeveloped nurturing instinct comes with being a healer.

Sometimes my natural instincts take over and I just go overboard.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

Survival instincts are one of those things that never die.

Supposing you've got an acute appendicitis. You've got to be operated on tonight. Would you like to have a surgeon who's read some books of anatomy and knows how to do that operation - or would you prefer to have a surgeon who refused to read all books about anatomy and relied on his own instinct?

Survival is my primary instinct...it's out of my control. It's stronger than me. It's an outside force, a voice that says 'do this for your life or it will devour you.'

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

Systems die; instincts remain.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

The apostles had this instinct: When in trouble, pray. When intimidated, pray. When challenged, pray. When persecuted, pray!

That is what's disconcerting about working on the show, you can't seem to get an instinct about what works and what doesn't. It happens a lot, and in different ways.

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.

That`s instinct, you catch and you shoot. I`ve done it hundreds of thousands of times in my driveway. It`s what I`ve practiced.

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.

- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.

The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things.

The intention of showing myself to the world has always been to be how I want to be and how I'm comfortable in the world, never to be anonymous. Right now, I'm just going with my instincts, and this is what I feel like doing. I'm always honest in what I put across.

The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.

The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

The herd instinct is the new chic! It's like belonging to a club!

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

The Killer instinct is not perceived by words, but by look.

The more knowledge you have, the more you're free to rely on your instincts.

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.