Instinct Quotes · Page 20

Don't believe everything you hear, anyone can sell you a dream.

— Anonymous

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

— Van Morrison

It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle.

— Sabrina Jeffries

A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

— John Irving

We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.

— Angelo Patri

I'm not looking for any particular genre or role because I will pick up a role based on my mood and instinct.

— Tejaswi Madivada

If a woman goes crazy because of jealousy, a mans blood rises when their protective instinct goes into gear

— Anonymous

I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal…

— Samantha Fox

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct,…

— Bear Grylls

Being able to put your blinders on, ignore negative opinions, and follow your strong intuition is what's validating to me. It's a…

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

— Bruce H. Lipton

“Superstitions are primal in nature and because they feed on instinct, having nothing but disdain for reason, they are often swift and…

— Mansoor Nazeer

I found when I was really little that my instinct was to write before talking to other people about the way that…

— Gracie Abrams

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass…

— Karel Capek

And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there…

— Kristin Cashore

An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which…

— Christopher Fry

My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact,…

— Augusten Burroughs

Futurism and Cubism are comparable in importance to the invention of perspective, for which they substituted a new concept of space. All…

— Gino Severini

You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong…

— Mark Twain

All life is rife with possibilities. Seeds have possibilities, but all their tomorrows are caught by the patterning of their life cycle.…

— Patricia Briggs

It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on…

— James Nachtwey

I believe "human sexuality" is one of the most ridiculous aspects of being a human, and here I was, facing publications whose…

— Jim Goad

Staying true to yourself and trusting your instincts is very important. I've learned this both through creating music, where I've always stayed…

— Avril Lavigne

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

— Saul Bellow

I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.

— Deborah Turbeville

As an actor, the only thing you have is your instinct and your imagination.

— Toby Stephens

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

— Errol Flynn

Trust your instincts, and the best way to trust them is to practice them.

— Vincent Rodriguez III

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

— James Russell Lowell

I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"

— Marc Almond

Politicians have an acutely honed instinct for self-preservation.

— Steve Schmidt

Sometimes there are no explanations and all you have to do is follow your heart and hope you made the right decision

— Anonymous

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

— Tony Levin

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

— Bertrand Russell

Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses.

— Noel Coward

Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.

— Anonymous

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

— George Santayana

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

— Lorrie Moore