Instinct Quotes · Page 17

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

— Edith Piaf

“Have the confidence to trust your gut feeling and choose your moment to act. Timing is everything”

— Lulu Guinness

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

— Gary Kemp

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

— D. H. Lawrence

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

— Walt Disney

There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

— Patrick deWitt

You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.

— Erol Alkan

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living…

— Isaac Newton

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

— Alexander Pope

It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts…

— Mike Carey

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

— Michael Chiklis

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of…

— Sigmund Freud

“You should accept the fact that there's no clear boundary between you and the horse, between rationality and instinct. It's not easy…

— Sibyl von der Schulenburg

Vladimir Putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: He smells weakness. To quote Winston Churchill's definition of appeasement: "An appeaser is…

— Garry Kasparov

One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up…

— Sylvia Plath

I think boxing is a singular sport, because the stakes are so high and because it just appeals to people's primal instincts.…

— Aaron Eckhart

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. Instinct is a lifesaver for sharks and entrepreneurs alike. Most people can…

— Barbara Corcoran

“In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purposes of life, we assume it…

— Immanuel Kant

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there…

— George Santayana

Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you…

— D. H. Lawrence

Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between…

— Melina Marchetta

If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to…

— Dave Barry

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

— Armistead Maupin

Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.

— Caleb Carr

“but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.”

— Clarice Lispector

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

— Laozi

A good aspect of me is that I'm not too particular about things. A bad aspect is that I'm indecisive.

— Akira Toriyama

“Instinct is the elusive magic that happens when art collides with hard-won craft.”

— Larry Brooks

Follow your heart and listen to your instincts because we all have them for a reason.

— Ryan Swain

You have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day.

— Nitin Sawhney

Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.

— Cesar Millan

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

— Michael Eric Dyson

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.

— Gyorgy Kepes

“Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.”

— Robert Galbraith

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

— Evelyn Waugh

I suppose every time [something bad happens], I have that instinct to make that joke that distracts.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

— Peter Mullan

“Ana, honey, you've always had a tendency to overanalyse everything. Go with your gut.”

— E.L. James