Instinct Quotes · Page 36

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

— Walt Disney

There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

— Patrick deWitt

It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.

— Simone Elkeles

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

— Edith Piaf

“Have the confidence to trust your gut feeling and choose your moment to act. Timing is everything”

— Lulu Guinness

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

— Gary Kemp

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

— Henry Williamson

I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which…

— Sienna Miller

My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

One day I had an instinct to put on a kaftan and go out and sing. People liked it out of the…

— Demis Roussos

“With the truest instinct of my kind, I’d bound myself securely into the body’s center of thought, twined myself inescapably into its…

— Stephenie Meyer

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated…

— Maria Montessori

“Reason. It is no more reliable a tool than instinct, myth or dream. But it has the potential to be far more…

— Neil Gaiman

You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with…

— Jean-Marc Vallee

One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not…

— Denis Diderot

I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment.…

— Chris Hedges

People sometimes ask: Is Putin a clever man? Yes, he's clever in his own way, when it comes to political intrigue, and…

— Vladimir Voinovich

Eragon cried out, and in his desperation he reached for Saphira and the Eldunarí... and without meaning to, he drew from their…

— Christopher Paolini

Choose to listen to your inner voice, not the jumbled opinions of everyone else. Do what you know in your heart is…

— Melchor Lim

One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the…

— Peter Brook

To have a friend does not end when you argue. Actually, friendship started when that thing happened. Not because you call each…

— Myself

Generosity is revolutionary, counter-instinctual. Our survival instinct is to care only for ourselves and our loved ones. But we can transform our…

— Noah Levine

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

— Steven Pressfield

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

— Edmund Burke

“It was instinct to pull back, to let go before I felt him let go first, bu he didn't allow me.”

— Alexandra Bracken

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

— Luigi Pirandello

I know what it feels like to love and care about things, but I've never had that instinct to have kids.

— Allison Janney

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

— Charles Darwin

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

— Jane Roberts

“I have never really been able to separate a good instinct from a self-destructive urge),”

— Emily Barr

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.

— Ravi Shankar

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

— Leo Tolstoy

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

— Tennessee Williams

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

— Oprah Winfrey

The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure.

— Lofty Wiseman

Spontaneity and instincts are key factors to a memorable party.

— Mia Moretti

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

— Albert Einstein

“Sometimes all you have is instinct, a gut feeling. It's important to pay attention to them.”

— James Patterson