Instinct Quotes · Page 17

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

— Holland Taylor

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

— Jeffrey Combs

There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I think your main draws are instinct, intuition and empathy... those things that you can't really practice.

— Scarlett Alice Johnson

There's no wrong move on stage. You can do no wrong if you just trust your instincts.

— Tim Meadows

Trust your instincts. If nothing else in this world tells you the truth, they will.

— Anonymous

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

— Michel Houellebecq

I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.

— David Selby

I used to play a few instruments including guitar and snare drums, but I think a musical background is an important part…

— Nicky Romero

By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in…

— Bill Walsh

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

— William Cowper

“In this way, reason represented by your knowledge, and experience represented by instinct -will start to conflict. Eventually, one will lose, and…

— Kinoko Nasu

I've always trusted my natural instinct because nobody ever taught me how to be on the radio or produce a show, and…

— Angie Martinez

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a…

— Hector Hugh Munro

I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own…

— Sue Grafton

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also…

— David Byrne

Is deciding what you like an instinct, a sense that arrives as swiftly as my autoimmune response to cat dander? Or is…

— Rumaan Alam

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people…

— Barbra Streisand

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. It's more instinctive rather…

— Amitabh Bachchan

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the…

— Leigh Hunt

I credit that eight years of grammar school with nourishing me in a direction where I could trust myself and trust my…

— George Carlin

Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you're in action. Ask yourself, "Does this go toward or…

— Barbara Sher

I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know…

— Sloane Crosley

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When it comes to assessing the chances of some complicated combination of events, gut feelings are pretty much useless.

— Richard Thaler

Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts.

— Mark Shields

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

— Ilsa J. Bick

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

— Samuel Smiles

Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.

— Seth Godin

My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.

— Veronica Roth

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

— Marie Dressler

Everyone is born with an instinct which balance itself with nature

— Kiula Shagile

“Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.”

— Leo Frobenius

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

— David O. Selznick

I don't think about making sexy clothes. It's just my instinct to make them.

— Donatella Versace

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

— Ambrose Bierce

It is your instinct & passion which extracts possible from impossible.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.

— Cesar Millan

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

— Henry Cantwell Wallace

Sometimes it's best not to think too much and just trust what your heart knows...

— Ritu Ghatourey