Instinct Quotes · Page 21

Why do you have to live a fake life just to impress me???? Does your instincts tell you it will bring us…

— Adaeze Agbai

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.

— Theodore Hesburgh

Follow your heart and listen to your instincts because we all have them for a reason.

— Ryan Swain

“Instinct is the elusive magic that happens when art collides with hard-won craft.”

— Larry Brooks

You have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day.

— Nitin Sawhney

Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.

— Cesar Millan

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.

— Gyorgy Kepes

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.

— Michael Eric Dyson

The instinct to improve oneself materially is necessary for growth. It is at the fountain of the enterprising spirit which drives private…

— Said Musa

Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to…

— John Updike

I feel that I'd rather know an actors' work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with…

— Adam Rapp

You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what…

— Ingrid Bergman

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

— Carl Jung

I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.

— Kevin Wilson

Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and…

— Colin Thubron

The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder…

— Aldous Huxley

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then…

— Wendell Berry

I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors…

— John Krasinski

Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you…

— Luke Bryan

Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We…

— Jim Butcher

Women are smarter by basic instinct and by what we have to do to multitask at home and at work. My mother…

— Mireille Guiliano

To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans,…

— Andrew Weil

“You think my first instinct is to protect you because you are small or a girl or a stiff, but you are…

— Veronica Roth

In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill…

— Judith Perelman Rossner

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

— Evelyn Waugh

“Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.”

— Robert Galbraith

I suppose every time [something bad happens], I have that instinct to make that joke that distracts.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I just always say your first instinct is your best instinct, I would say.

— Nelly Korda

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.

— Jean Dubuffet

“Ana, honey, you've always had a tendency to overanalyse everything. Go with your gut.”

— E.L. James

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

— Peter Mullan

No regrets this time. I'm gonna let my heart defeat my mind.

— Anonymous

Trust your instincts: If your instincts have always served you well, trust them and follow them.

— Joy Mangano

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.

— Brittany Murphy

How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.

— Jordan Peele

I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality.

— Neal Stephenson

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

— Graham Greene

“If your gut is telling you something is askew, chances are it is.”

— Janet Pucino

I’m adding ‘canine’ to my searches,” I said. “And ‘instinct.’” “Whatever. I’m adding ‘lunatic.

— Kathy Reichs