Instinct Quotes · Page 28

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

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

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

— Florence Welch

Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.

— Konrad Lorenz

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

— John McCarthy

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant…

— Alan Rickman

The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

That's instinct, you catch and you shoot. I've done it hundreds of thousands of times in my driveway. It's what I've practiced.

— John Paxson

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

— Pat Riley

Eventually we must lower our defenses and just trust our instincts. Trust your gut and just let things happen. Trust that your…

— Wendell V

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually,…

— Joe Wright

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through…

— Albert Einstein

My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film…

— Michael Hirst

After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's right for you.…

— Tori Spelling

There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should…

— Paul Samuelson

The pace at which science has progressed has been too fast for human behaviour to adapt to it. As I said we…

— Jean-Marie Lehn

“If you have the kind of intelligence and instinct that will point you in the right direction, playing the rebel will not…

— Robert Greene

This is me putting it simply; the politicians are one demographic and they see that Arizona is changing. I feel like the…

— Matt de la Pena

Sometimes in the ignorance I feel the meaning Invincible invisible wisdom, And I commune with intuitive instinct With the force that made…

— Sun Ra

From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading…

— George Saunders

Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does…

— Philip Kapleau

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

— Henri Matisse

As a global disrupter, Uber is no stranger to conflict, and its instinct has always been pugilistic.

— James B. Stewart

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

— Thomas Mann

I make all my decisions by listening to my instinct and then keeping my fingers crossed it will lead to a good…

— Felicity Jones

Hates it when your gut tells you that something just ain't right...

— Nishan Panwar

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

— Jim Leach

“The cat is obeying its blood instinct when it plays with the mouse! It's made that way.”

— Agatha Christie

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

— Wendell Berry

The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things.

— Phil Karn

I am, by instinct, wary of revolutions. The gathering of the masses fills me with trepidation.

— Hisham Matar

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

— Jean Rostand

But I have a gut feeling on this and it’s not the oh-look-it’s-a-bright-shiny-world kind. (Tate)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I'm not a policy wonk - I'm somewhere between being undecided and a surrogate.

— Jimmy Smits

We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct.

— Marion Cotillard

Feeling fear is a good sign that your survival instincts are intact. You need to appreciate the dangers to stay safe.

— Zoe Bell

It's a quality you need to be a world champion; you have to have that killer instinct.

— Joseph Parker