Instinct Quotes · Page 19

If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.

— Sarah Dessen

Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is

— Van Hartmann

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

— Horace Mann

Trust your instincts. You are right on. Don't second guess yourself.

— Anonymous

I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

— Mark Kozelek

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

— Omar Epps

“Sometimes you just have to trust your instincts; it may be all you have to trust.”

— Jocelyn Murray

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

— Dorothy Thompson

It never occurred to me that artists, of all people, have to be reminded that instinct is more important than tradition, but…

— Lexi Alexander

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was…

— Peggy Fleming

Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and…

— James Jackson Jarves

The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the…

— Bill Burr

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

— Nicolas Cage

If Mozart, instead of playing the pianoforte at three years old with wonderfully little practice, had played a tune with no practice…

— Charles Darwin

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and…

— Khaled Hosseini

Every time Jimmy Scott sings, it's the same but slightly different. I don't know how he does that or where he gets…

— Sufjan Stevens

There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves…

— Thomas Merton

I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries.…

— David Foster Wallace

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum…

— Dylan McDermott

Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

With all thy getting, get understanding, is the banner under which these Forbes editorials have appeared since the first issue of the…

— B. C. Forbes

The fans [of Vampire diaries] that we have now are the people who will watch it any day of the week. So,…

— Caroline Dries

And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In…

— Jack London

My killer instinct is so strong that lions call me to take lessons.

— Miguel Torres

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

— Francis Bacon

Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.

— Will Ferrell

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

— Erving Goffman

Follow your instincts - you never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them.

— Lulu Guinness

I have to follow my instincts when I get an idea like 'Desperate Cheeto.'

— Randy Rainbow

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

— Hunter S. Thompson

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it…

— Will Cuppy

My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.

— Barack Obama

Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

— Erwin McManus

“My gut instinct is that these heavens and hells exist nowhere else except in our hearts and minds”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

— Gloria Steinem

I'm just natural with initiative, with instinct. Paediatricians have said so themselves.

— Jo Frost

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it…

— Will Cuppy

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

— Phyllis McGinley