Instinct Quotes · Page 39

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

— Gregory David Roberts

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

— Albert Einstein

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.

— Erica Schroeder

Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.

— Andrew Flintoff

You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.

— Clint Eastwood

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

— Alexander Pope

I don't make decisions with my head anymore. If I don't get the go ahead with my gut, I usually back out.

— Jane Siberry

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

— Max Beerbohm

The Center for Public Integrity is the real thing. A group of dedicated people who remember that great journalism is about grit…

— Diane Sawyer

Morrigan "Don't worry I'm following my instincts." Birkita "Perhaps you could find a way to prudently follow your instincts" Morrigan "I'm eighteen,…

— Anonymous

When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that’s when votes started being cast with emotion…

— Rush Limbaugh

We make very little progress when we strive to conquer baser instincts in a good mood. However, vast strides are possible when…

— Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was…

— John Hench

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in…

— Theda Bara

“The modern instinct is that if the heart of man is evil, there is nothing that remains good. But the older feeling…

— G.K. Chesterton

When you're hitting a fairway wood, you've got a lot of real estate to cover to get to your target. Your first…

— Ernie Els

You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't…

— Tobias Wolff

i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow…

— Craig Clevenger

I think human beings have a basic instinct to be free and explore their world in their own way. I've always been…

— Jack Nicholson

All living beings have received their weapons through the same process of evolution that moulded their impulses and inhibitions; for the structural…

— Konrad Lorenz

Food and sex have been bound together for a long time. I guess this is due to the intimate connection between the…

— Ori Hofmekler

O. J. has an uncanny instinct for sensing when to make the move, when to makethe cut. He can kill you with…

— Howard Cosell

You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but…

— Terry Pratchett

Nature is so huge. I mean, you can't even look one way! Everything is huge. That was my natural instinct, to create…

— Willie Herron

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

— Don Blanding

I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no…

— William Shakespeare

If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

— Clare Boothe Luce

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

— Brian Wilson

Sometimes you have to trust your guts and your instinct and improvise a little.

— Peter Stormare

The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.

— Robert A. Heinlein

You have to go with your gut, take a leap of faith and trust you'll be protected where you land.

— Anonymous

I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.

— Katrina Kaif

Always trust your gut feeling, and never second guess. Your gut feeling is always right.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Always trust your gut, It knows what your head hasn't yet figured out..

— Ritu Ghatourey

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

— Kenneth Tynan

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I do solemnly swear I will trust my instincts—my ‘gut’—from now on,”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

— Carl Sagan

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

— Tony Parsons