Instinct Quotes · Page 28

I have to say I am very happy with Zachary Clark. And also, I am so happy that I trust my gut…

— Tayshia Adams

You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.

— Ruth Bernhard

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

— Kathryn Schulz

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

— Sarah Kay

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

— Peter Straub

Feeling fear is a good sign that your survival instincts are intact. You need to appreciate the dangers to stay safe.

— Zoe Bell

We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct.

— Marion Cotillard

I'm not a policy wonk - I'm somewhere between being undecided and a surrogate.

— Jimmy Smits

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a…

— Jimmy Buffett

Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right!…

— Bruce Feiler

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together.…

— Phillip Noyce

Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Above all, trust your instincts. If she's the right one, you'll know. If she's not, let her go and be thankful that…

— Rich Marcello

“—Call it curiosity. Call it instinct. And I am a man who has followed his instincts. —I thought it was principles. —In…

— David Bezmozgis

The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world,…

— Emir Kusturica

Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part…

— Donald Trump

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed…

— Brian D. McLaren

In a period of economic downturn, the overwhelming instinct is to pare back, cut costs, and lay off. If you do that,…

— Michael Porter

“Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a cabalistic society. A love-hate relationship defines…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Nature can be cruel. Predators are everywhere. Those who don't need to be protected from outside forces often need to be protected…

— Emily Thorne

“When at a crossroads, my father was fond of saying “go with your gut.” “Intuition,” he said, “always has our best interests…

— Emily Thorne

To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible…

— Victor Hugo

Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more…

— Emile M. Cioran

But I have a gut feeling on this and it’s not the oh-look-it’s-a-bright-shiny-world kind. (Tate)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

— Jean Rostand

I am, by instinct, wary of revolutions. The gathering of the masses fills me with trepidation.

— Hisham Matar

The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things.

— Phil Karn

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

— Wendell Berry

“The cat is obeying its blood instinct when it plays with the mouse! It's made that way.”

— Agatha Christie

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

— Jim Leach

Hates it when your gut tells you that something just ain't right...

— Nishan Panwar

I make all my decisions by listening to my instinct and then keeping my fingers crossed it will lead to a good…

— Felicity Jones

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

— Thomas Mann

As a global disrupter, Uber is no stranger to conflict, and its instinct has always been pugilistic.

— James B. Stewart

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

— Henri Matisse

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

— John McCarthy

Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.

— Konrad Lorenz

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

— Florence Welch

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

— Malcolm Gladwell