Instinct Quotes · Page 31

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

— Sarah Dessen

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

Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need…

— Anonymous

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the…

— Matthew Arnold

This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the…

— Sigmund Freud

Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people…

— Drew Barrymore

Our need to knock celebrities is...Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's…

— Peaches Geldof

For I now realize that what overcame me that evening was a sudden awareness of the power of intuition, the supra-logic that…

— Robert Graves

“The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.”

— Criss Jami

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed…

— Brian D. McLaren

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know it's the comedian's instinct to say, "Do it, man, nothing's off-limits! It's cool, bro!" I don't know if that's the…

— Bo Burnham

“They were opposite in so many ways, but it was the kind of difference that was balancing-her softness with his steel, his…

— Melissa Cutler

Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps one’s hands free of another man’s throat,…

— Ben Marcus

The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a…

— Leon Uris

Working on camera is a different ballgame in the sense that it's far more intimate work, but the basics and the foundations…

— Rose Leslie

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

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

— Jack Dreyfus

“Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?”

— Gaston Bachelard

When your gut is telling you something is wrong...well follow your gut feeling because usually something is wrong.

— Anonymous

You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

— Steve Jobs

When there's no turning back, your instincts will lead you forward.

— T. D. Jakes

“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

I'm so indecisive that I can't pick a favorite color, and I'm allergic to 12 things.

— Emma Gonzalez

You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

— Sugar Ray Robinson

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

— Chris Hughes