Instinct Quotes · Page 26

To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart

— Christy Borgeld

Why should a manufacturer bet his money, perhaps the future of his company, on your instinct?

— David Ogilvy

Know the difference between instinct and habits. Trust your instincts but question your habits

— Joe Mehl

As humans, our instinct is to be free. And any sort of restrictions don't help.

— Kirti Kulhari

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

— Jeffrey Combs

Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into.

— Mitski

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

— Holland Taylor

There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what…

— Oprah Winfrey

The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts…

— Michael Leunig

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human…

— Clarence Darrow

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through…

— Albert Einstein

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

— Charles Darwin

My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film…

— Michael Hirst

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually,…

— Joe Wright

Eventually we must lower our defenses and just trust our instincts. Trust your gut and just let things happen. Trust that your…

— Wendell V

As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Being part of an attack was a strange thing, Marcus had always thought. It was like being a component in a larger…

— Django Wexler

The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed…

— Saul Bellow

I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet…

— Lord Byron

Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of…

— Anonymous

In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also…

— Richard Branson

These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust.…

— Patricia Hampl

Man's earthly existence is but a test as to whether he will concentrate his efforts, his mind, his soul upon things which…

— David O. McKay

There's no wrong move on stage. You can do no wrong if you just trust your instincts.

— Tim Meadows

I think your main draws are instinct, intuition and empathy... those things that you can't really practice.

— Scarlett Alice Johnson

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

— Michel Houellebecq

Trust your instincts. If nothing else in this world tells you the truth, they will.

— Anonymous

I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.

— David Selby

Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.

— Seth Godin

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

— Samuel Smiles

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

— Ilsa J. Bick

When it comes to assessing the chances of some complicated combination of events, gut feelings are pretty much useless.

— Richard Thaler

Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts.

— Mark Shields

“Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.”

— Leo Frobenius

Everyone is born with an instinct which balance itself with nature

— Kiula Shagile

My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.

— Veronica Roth

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

— Marie Dressler

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

— Ambrose Bierce

I don't think about making sexy clothes. It's just my instinct to make them.

— Donatella Versace