Instinct Quotes · Page 39

Never to be frightened of taking risks and always follow your instincts!

— Richard Branson

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always…

— Ben Elton

“I do not like the situation but must endure to fulfil the dream.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but it is instinct.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

— Tony Parsons

“I do solemnly swear I will trust my instincts—my ‘gut’—from now on,”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

— Carl Sagan

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

— Kenneth Tynan

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally…

— Julie Delpy

When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. As you grow up…

— Romola Garai

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such…

— Charles Caleb Colton

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

— Erich Fromm

...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.

— Nicholas Sparks

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift…

— T. Boone Pickens

You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have…

— Jerry West

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about…

— Christopher Alexander

I think this is an exciting time to be a female filmmaker. Trust your instincts, work harder than anyone else and learn…

— Alex Hammond

A lot of these kids have no fathers, and they want to be gangsters. They don't believe in God and have no…

— Bobby Slayton

On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see……

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Fear,” said Lobsang. “An instinct that prevents many people from taking actions that they know, deep down inside, would liberate them. Like…

— David Michie

That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't…

— Patricia Clarkson

I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as…

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

Let's take Adam Smith, the patron-saint of capitalism, what did he think? He thought the main human instinct was sympathy. In fact,…

— Noam Chomsky

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Always trust your gut, It knows what your head hasn't yet figured out..

— Ritu Ghatourey

Always trust your gut feeling, and never second guess. Your gut feeling is always right.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.

— Katrina Kaif

You have to go with your gut, take a leap of faith and trust you'll be protected where you land.

— Anonymous

The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Sometimes you have to trust your guts and your instinct and improvise a little.

— Peter Stormare

If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

— Clare Boothe Luce

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

— Brian Wilson

I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no…

— William Shakespeare

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

— Don Blanding

I don't make decisions with my head anymore. If I don't get the go ahead with my gut, I usually back out.

— Jane Siberry

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

— Max Beerbohm

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

— Alexander Pope

You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.

— Clint Eastwood