Instinct Quotes · Page 25

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

— Gregory David Roberts

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

— Albert Einstein

Go with your gut instincts even if it is contrarian to what the "experts" suggest.

— Jim Rohn

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

— Dawn Powell

If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting

— Dorian Yates

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

— Gertrude Stein

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.

— Chris Bosh

The more knowledge you have, the more you're free to rely on your instincts.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if…

— Francis Bacon

--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly…

— Thomas Hardy

It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the…

— Charles Darwin

Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in…

— Robert Smith

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing…

— Sarah Dessen

You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go…

— Haruki Murakami

You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or…

— Bill Russell

I think that there's an idea in 2016 that if a woman doesn't have it all then she's lacking in some way,…

— Sharon Horgan

Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

You have to trust your instincts and know that the right question or the right answer will come to you. You don’t…

— Cat Deeley

How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?…

— Rod Serling

Presently we have to train our unconscious to function better. Then we can depend upon our instincts, that will be noble instincts.…

— Chinmayananda Saraswati

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that…

— Oscar Wilde

As a kid, in the Runaways, I would see the interviewers start to ask about our personal lives and what we did…

— Joan Jett

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it…

— Francis Bacon

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

— Hilaire Belloc

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

— Carla Gugino

My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

— Albert Rosenfeld

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.

— Paul Rusesabagina

The biggest thing I've learned is to listen to my own gut. I have learned to trust my instincts.

— Jeff Foxworthy

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

— Samuel Butler

If I try to be fast then I'm no good, so it's better just to shut everything off and let instinct take…

— Caeleb Dressel

The best decisions aren't made with your mind, but with your Instinct.

— Lionel Messi

I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.

— Leila Slimani

“Love is written in our instincts, yet erased by our actions.”

— Gayle D. Erwin

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

— Henri Matisse

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

— Anonymous

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

— Greta Gerwig

Don't ever second-guess a strong feeling that you have. Trust your gut.

— Allison DuBois

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

— Nate Silver

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.

— Anonymous