Instinct Quotes · Page 33

I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it.

— Julia Roberts

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

— Wendell Phillips

Follow your heart, Not the world. It'll get you much further in life, trust me.

— Anonymous

“The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.”

— Doris Lessing

You either back your instincts or you hold off - and you're more likely to back your instincts if you're confident.

— Andrew Strauss

I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

My final thought before making most of my decision is usually Fuck it.

— The Blog That Describe Your Life

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

— Amanda Hale

“The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.”

— Criss Jami

For I now realize that what overcame me that evening was a sudden awareness of the power of intuition, the supra-logic that…

— Robert Graves

Our need to knock celebrities is...Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's…

— Peaches Geldof

Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people…

— Drew Barrymore

This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the…

— Sigmund Freud

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the…

— Matthew Arnold

Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need…

— Anonymous

I believe in my gut. Most people intellectualize their instincts away, but when you feel something, you have to go for it.…

— Clint Eastwood

I've never been trained as an actress, so it's all instinct. I just let myself go into this kind of a free…

— January Jones

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's…

— Colin Firth

I know Donald Trump as a very adaptive person. In my nearly three and a half decades of being in the military,…

— Michael T. Flynn

We feel great compassion for parents whose love and protective instincts for their challenged children have moved them to some positions that…

— Dallin H. Oaks

It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish…

— Hilaire Belloc

Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he…

— Jonathan Swift

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity,…

— Camille Paglia

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or…

— Loren Eiseley

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

— Anonymous

To survive in a creative economy, you need basic instinct! You have to know and smell your viewer.

— Ekta Kapoor

The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

If something doesn't feel right, trust your instincts. Don't ignore it and listen before it happens.

— Anonymous

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

— Duke Ellington

“Talent is something you bloom, Instinct is something you polish.”

— Haikyūu Oikawa Tooru

My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

— Haruki Murakami

I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.

— John Muir

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

— Jean Cocteau

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

— Harry S Truman

“Man's strongest instinct is not sex or self-preservation. it's to level the playing field.”

— Ron Brackin

John Podesta said Hillary Linton has terrible instincts. Bernie Sanders said she has bad judgment. I agree with both.

— Donald Trump

“already know by instinct we're not comfortably at home in our translated world.”

— Amitav Ghosh

I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct for confession.

— Melissa Febos