Instinct Quotes · Page 35

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

— Ezra Pound

“Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.”

— Robert Galbraith

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

— Evelyn Waugh

I suppose every time [something bad happens], I have that instinct to make that joke that distracts.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

— Peter Mullan

“Ana, honey, you've always had a tendency to overanalyse everything. Go with your gut.”

— E.L. James

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

— Jean Dubuffet

“You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's a survival instinct to find the lighter side of things, especially when the reality you're faced with is quite dark.

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

I would definitely say I'm a feminist. To me, it just means being attentive and mindful. It's about equality and equal treatment.…

— Hattie Morahan

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his…

— Denis Diderot

With John Wick we wanted to do something like that. So rather than punching, kicks - and for the kind of way…

— Chad Stahelski

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

— Trevor Nunn

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves…

— Margaret Fuller

My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy, and move on without any kind of hesitation…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

— Bela Bartok

On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see……

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A lot of these kids have no fathers, and they want to be gangsters. They don't believe in God and have no…

— Bobby Slayton

I think this is an exciting time to be a female filmmaker. Trust your instincts, work harder than anyone else and learn…

— Alex Hammond

The hand descended. Nearer and nearer it came. It touched the ends of his upstanding hair. He shrank down under it. It…

— Jack London

I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, and…

— Kiesza

Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more…

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what…

— Megan Chance

Fortunately for me, it's my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country…

— Landon Donovan

I just always say your first instinct is your best instinct, I would say.

— Nelly Korda

Trust your instincts: If your instincts have always served you well, trust them and follow them.

— Joy Mangano

No regrets this time. I'm gonna let my heart defeat my mind.

— Anonymous

“Instinct is the elusive magic that happens when art collides with hard-won craft.”

— Larry Brooks

Follow your heart and listen to your instincts because we all have them for a reason.

— Ryan Swain

Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.

— Cesar Millan

You have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day.

— Nitin Sawhney

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.

— Michael Eric Dyson

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.

— Gyorgy Kepes

You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.

— Erol Alkan

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

— Armistead Maupin

“but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.”

— Clarice Lispector

Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.

— Caleb Carr

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

— Laozi

A good aspect of me is that I'm not too particular about things. A bad aspect is that I'm indecisive.

— Akira Toriyama

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

— D. H. Lawrence