Instinct Quotes · Page 17

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

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

— Patrick deWitt

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

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— Walt Disney

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

— Gary Kemp

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

— Edith Piaf

To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women,…

— George Santayana

We accept the need to train extensively to fly a plane; but think instinct should be enough for marrying and raising kids.

— Alain de Botton

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences…

— Terry Tempest Williams

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic…

— Louisa May Alcott

I think as with everything in life you've got to follow your gut. If you believe it wholeheartedly, then it's not going…

— Toni Collette

Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get…

— James Van Der Zee

What promotes math progress even more than new ideas are new technical tools and habits of thought that encapsulate existing ideas, so…

— Jim Propp

You need to have that killer instinct. It can't be taught. Where does it come from? A couple slaps. A couple things…

— Riddick Bowe

One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the…

— Carl Jung

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly…

— Anonymous

Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of…

— Orison Swett Marden

If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to…

— Dave Barry

We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has…

— Maurice Denis

Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between…

— Melina Marchetta

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there…

— George Santayana

Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you…

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— Lulu Guinness

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

— Simone Elkeles

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Steven Pressfield

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

— Henry Williamson

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.

— Theodore Hesburgh

Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression.

— Lemn Sissay

Why do you have to live a fake life just to impress me???? Does your instincts tell you it will bring us…

— Adaeze Agbai

I've learned to always trust my mothers instinct, it's always the people she warns me about that end up hurting me.

— Anonymous

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

— Ezra Pound

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

— Nelson Mandela

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

— Anonymous

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

— Joy Mangano

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana