Instinct Quotes · Page 32

For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

— Casey Stoner

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

— Ouida

I don't follow fashion and I don't follow trends, I just follow my instincts

— Victoria Beckham

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

— St. Vincent

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.

— Phyllis McGinley

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

— George Orwell

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love…

— Havelock Ellis

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather…

— Bjork

Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their…

— Honore de Balzac

Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive,…

— Michael Shermer

Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the…

— Anonymous

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being…

— Adam Hochschild

The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater,…

— Edgar Cayce

Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common…

— Josh Billings

My business savvy it’s instinct. Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it’s…

— Tamara Mellon

Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and…

— Angela Ahrendts

We are now in a position to understand the anti-Semite. He is a man who is afraid. Not of the Jews, to…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“At times, reality is love’s great challenge. When our old stories and dreams are shattered, our first instinct may be to resist,…

— Sharon Salzberg

The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a…

— Colin Firth

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or…

— Loren Eiseley

It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish…

— Hilaire Belloc

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity,…

— Camille Paglia

“Instinct is a marvellous thing," mused Poirot. "It can neither be explained nor ignored.”

— Agatha Christie

Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.

— Eric Liddell

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

— Lynn Abbey

I strongly believe that many of the best decisions are made on gut instinct.

— Emilia Wickstead

I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was…

— Laura Linney

You just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart.

— Gerard Way

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

— Robert Hugh Benson

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

My music is born from instinct. I react to situations a script may provide while creating a song.

— Amit Trivedi

When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.

— Shonda Rhimes

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

— Harry S Truman

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

— Jean Cocteau

I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.

— John Muir

My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

— Haruki Murakami