Instinct Quotes · Page 21

“Regular people have such a hard time listening to the low hum of instinct.”

— Suzanne Palmieri

For me, that's natural. The instinct to score comes naturally and if you have it, you've got to go to it.

— Reggie Lewis

Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one

— Harry S Truman

“There are no laws set in stones, follow your basic instincts, they contain the laws that guide you existence.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't.

— Claudette Colbert

Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.

— Murray Mexted

I try to make choices for my own life. And I try to make those choices count.

— Lisa Mangum

To want to hold and touch the women he loves is natural instinct of men

— Anonymous

I don't have this weird, natural funny bone that constantly comes out. It's not like my every instinct is to be funny,…

— Rachael Harris

I grew up with six girls and one boy, so my innate instinct of who I am - I'm the third oldest,…

— Katy Mixon

... the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is…

— Freya Stark

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an…

— F. H. Bradley

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

— Twyla Tharp

Your emotions for someone may create a cloud of confusion over the judgments you make. Remember, not everyone reacts mentally. A lot…

— Lucas

Understand the "Gretzky Factor": Cultivate an instinct, a "touch", call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the…

— Warren G. Bennis

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always…

— Lionel Messi

When it began, Christianity was regarded as a system entirely beyond the range and scope of human reason; it was impious to…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this…

— Anonymous

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man,…

— James Thurber

“The soul is not a single unity; that is what it is destined to become, and that is what we call 'immortality'.…

— Gustav Meyrink

It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have…

— Marilyn vos Savant

The Republican party must break with its long-established instinct for caution and make a bold stand for first principles of freedom and…

— Tony Blankley

Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind…

— George Lois

My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.

— Jack Dreyfus

I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great

— Lyle Lovett

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

— Marcel Boulestin

I have my moments when I am down and low. But I gather myself when decisions are to be taken.

— Boney Kapoor

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone elses.

— Billy Wilder

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things

— Clifford Geertz

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

— Jonathan Swift

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

— Julie Walters

I just don't know how to stitch words in a predictable way sometimes. It's a weird instinct I've developed.

— Masiela Lusha

I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with…

— Liz Phair

In terms of what we share from our lives, I tend to share everything. My instinct would be to share everything.

— Alison Rosen

Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

— Jose Marti

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

— Bertrand Russell

... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.

— Samuel Florman

When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.

— Ambrose Bierce