Best 601 quotes in «instinct quotes» category

Any person by nature has inherent capabilities. You have to trust your instincts and act with spontaneity.

Anyone who's ever had the misfortune of seeing me interact with house pets knows I have a wickedly strong paternal instinct bordering on the maternal.

Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct.

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.

Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible.

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

A tendency toward enthusiasm and a chivalrous instinct have more than once been weighed as evidence of a lack of judgment.

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.

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

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.

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.

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.

Donald Trump really has authoritarian, dictatorial instincts.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.