Instinct Quotes · Page 27

Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my…

— Robyn Davidson

It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with…

— Robert Redford

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

— Naveen Jain

“He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.”

— Pat Conroy

The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts.

— Chris Matthews

I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.

— Ben Miller

I think, when I'm on the court, I become with a killer instinct - a real Scorpio.

— Ana Ivanovic

A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings…

— George Bernard Shaw

Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.

— Gladys Taber

Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival…

— Scott McCloud

I have great instincts, like the instincts of a squirrel. You know, like when you're driving and a squirrel stops in the…

— Simon Helberg

Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask…

— Cynthia Nixon

“Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't…

— Patricia Clarkson

I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as…

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but…

— Terry Pratchett

O. J. has an uncanny instinct for sensing when to make the move, when to makethe cut. He can kill you with…

— Howard Cosell

Food and sex have been bound together for a long time. I guess this is due to the intimate connection between the…

— Ori Hofmekler

Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not…

— Clayton Christensen

Nature is so huge. I mean, you can't even look one way! Everything is huge. That was my natural instinct, to create…

— Willie Herron

Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.

— Jonathan Schell

“Go with your gut. Sometimes things defy explanation - and who knows where it will lead?”

— Cathy Hopkins

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 will never give up because my primate instinct is to survive.''

— Jeremy Limn

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

— Kathy Reichs

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

— Dawn Powell

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

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Dorian Yates

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

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

— Hilaire Belloc

When somebody is doing something really funny, in real life and as a performer, my instinct is to join them.

— Jake M. Johnson