Instinct Quotes · Page 23

I know what it feels like to love and care about things, but I've never had that instinct to have kids.

— Allison Janney

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

— Luigi Pirandello

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

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

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

— John Otto

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

— Vannetta Chapman

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

— Jane Goodall

I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct…

— John Caudwell

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate:…

— Oscar Wilde

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And…

— Jerry Lewis

Believe it or not, I'm not really thinking about anything when I putt…It's hard to teach. I let my instincts take over.…

— Brad Faxon

We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and…

— Alex Majoli

Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and…

— Simon Cowell

Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a…

— Malcolm Gladwell

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and…

— Joseph Addison

“Instincts are effective tools of survival, but when it comes to finding true answers to real questions, your rational thinking is the…

— Abhijit Naskar

“The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem…

— Russell Brand

I prefer not to overthink things because I think if I did I would never end up releasing anything. I tend to…

— Chelsea Wolfe

Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

But you have to trust your instincts. Because you're not going to try it 20 different ways during rehearsal. You'll try it…

— Kevin Kline

Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he…

— Charles Darwin

Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than…

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

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

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

— Peter Stormare

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

— Clint Eastwood

Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.

— Andrew Flintoff

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel