Instinct Quotes · Page 36

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

— Patrick deWitt

There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

— D. H. Lawrence

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

— Walt Disney

A good aspect of me is that I'm not too particular about things. A bad aspect is that I'm indecisive.

— Akira Toriyama

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

— Laozi

Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.

— Caleb Carr

“but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.”

— Clarice Lispector

The 'look of love' not only communicates our feeling of love for someone but also reflects our instinct to do whatever it…

— Willard F. Harley

Real men don't do pickup lines just to sweep off every girls' feet. They do and trust their own instincts knowing what…

— Jean Kerr

There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we…

— Barbara Pym

It's important for me to really play with the traditions and keep things simple and easy. Ultimately I believe in animal instincts…

— Peter Dundas

Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful…

— Henry Mintzberg

I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going…

— Audie Murphy

With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.

— Edith Head

You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with…

— Jean-Marc Vallee

“Imitation is a real instinct, but it is not always playful; play is a real instinct, but it is not always imitative.…

— Karl Groos

The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Humanity is mostly operating on the level of instinct, even though it has the power of the rational mind. It is a…

— X5

What I was doing when I was creating my werewolves is really basing them on a wild wolf pack, as much as…

— Kelley Armstrong

As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the…

— Baruch Spinoza

Hypocrisy is bad, but it's not the worst vice in the world. If I declared “murder is wrong” and then killed somebody,…

— Jonah Goldberg

Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy…

— Maria Montessori

What are you doing?" "Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly. It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and…

— Shannon Hale

You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.

— Erol Alkan

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

— Armistead Maupin

We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts.

— Jane Goodall

“Trust your instincts... God gave them to you, and they're as valuable as what you learned in school.”

— Vannetta Chapman

If you don't know things, you know, you just go by your instinct.

— Charlie Murphy

A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.

— Karl Kraus

I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that.

— John Otto

“the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

— Jim Shepard

If you feel something then act upon it, otherwise you'll spend the rest of your life wondering what could have been.

— Anonymous

Intuition is more than knowledge, and truth comes pure from the heart.

— Don Bradley

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

— Antonin Artaud

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

— Karl Lagerfeld

“Sometimes all you have is instinct, a gut feeling. It's important to pay attention to them.”

— James Patterson

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

— Albert Einstein

Spontaneity and instincts are key factors to a memorable party.

— Mia Moretti