Instinct Quotes · Page 20

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

— Duke Ellington

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

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

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

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

— Clarice Lispector

The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.

— Gladys Taber

“I don't think there are any true heroes. Just people who ignore their survival instincts long enough to do something incredibly foolhardy.”

— Lauren James

If youre serious about what youre doing, youve got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you wont reach the…

— Jonny Lee Miller

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and…

— Max Beerbohm

I was worried - I wasn't sure I had the maternal instinct. But the minute my son came out, he was my…

— Holly Marie Combs

Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games…

— Lawren Harris

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a…

— Jodi Picoult

When people are out of their comfort zone, it’s more dramatic, more prone to have more entertaining experiences, get into fights. That’s…

— Conor McPherson

One thing I've learned as an actor as well as a producer is to trust my own instinct. When I first started…

— Gerard Butler

In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of…

— Robert Underwood Johnson

If someone writes something shitty and you actually address them, most of the time they're just like, "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm a…

— Aziz Ansari

“...imitation supplements inadequate congenital variations in the direction of an instinct, and so, by keeping the creature alive, sets the trend of…

— Karl Groos

New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he…

— Gore Vidal

Every GM will tell you it's an instinct. It's an instinct to be patient, to react, or act, or not to do…

— Masai Ujiri

To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive…

— E. F. Benson

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

— Caleb Carr

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

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

— Steven Pressfield

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

— Henry Williamson

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

— Edmund Burke

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

— Gary Kemp

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

— Edith Piaf

“Have the confidence to trust your gut feeling and choose your moment to act. Timing is everything”

— Lulu Guinness

It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.

— Simone Elkeles

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

— Nelson Mandela

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

— W. Somerset Maugham

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

— Ezra Pound

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I've learned to always trust my mothers instinct, it's always the people she warns me about that end up hurting me.

— Anonymous

Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression.

— Lemn Sissay