Instinct Quotes · Page 18

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

— Nelly Korda

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

— Jean Dubuffet

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

— E.L. James

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

— Peter Mullan

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

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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

— Evelyn Waugh

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

— Robert Galbraith

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

— Gyorgy Kepes

If Mozart, instead of playing the pianoforte at three years old with wonderfully little practice, had played a tune with no practice…

— Charles Darwin

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and…

— Khaled Hosseini

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part…

— Nicolas Cage

I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the…

— Bill Burr

The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

It never occurred to me that artists, of all people, have to be reminded that instinct is more important than tradition, but…

— Lexi Alexander

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was…

— Peggy Fleming

Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and…

— James Jackson Jarves

“In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purposes of life, we assume it…

— Immanuel Kant

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. Instinct is a lifesaver for sharks and entrepreneurs alike. Most people can…

— Barbara Corcoran

I think boxing is a singular sport, because the stakes are so high and because it just appeals to people's primal instincts.…

— Aaron Eckhart

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because…

— Sam Mendes

One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up…

— Sylvia Plath

“[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to…

— Tiffany Madison

When you're living by instinct, then you will naturally enhance everything and everyone around you. In other words, success will come naturally!…

— Anonymous

I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that…

— Ellen Meloy

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

— Michael Eric Dyson

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

— Nitin Sawhney

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

— Cesar Millan

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

— Ryan Swain

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

— Larry Brooks

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

— Horace Mann

Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is

— Van Hartmann

If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.

— Sarah Dessen

Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.

— Colin Powell

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

— Boz Scaggs

I didn't have the self-promotion instinct, and I just didn't care about it. I sort of had a "beat" attitude.

— Steve Young

“I said, but I have to go, there are so many places calling my name.”

— Nikki Rowe

I could make Basic Instinct 16. If guys will keep thinking I'm hot, I might turn it into a TV series.

— Sharon Stone

I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.

— Yolandi Visser

“Intelligent men never do a business; only a fool kills his own beautiful instincts for the sake of a word profit.”

— Thiruman Archunan

Sometimes my natural instincts take over and I just go overboard.

— Bill Goldberg