Instinct Quotes · Page 31

“Man's strongest instinct is not sex or self-preservation. it's to level the playing field.”

— Ron Brackin

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

— Josephine Tey

“already know by instinct we're not comfortably at home in our translated world.”

— Amitav Ghosh

I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct for confession.

— Melissa Febos

I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.

— Jory John

I dont believe in taking RIGHT DECISIONS, I TAKE decisions and I MAKE them right.

— JHONI (Czhang

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

— Jodi Picoult

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone…

— Laszlo Bock

That's a big thing in my life: going with your gut. If something isn't lighting the fire and making you excited, or…

— Kiernan Shipka

Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal…

— Ori Hofmekler

Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.

— Jaggi Vasudev

I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I'm not sure where…

— Heidi Klum

“We are genetically programmed to react to stimuli in our immediate vicinity. Responding to complex issues that we cannot perceive directly requires…

— Graeme Simsion

Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell…

— Frances Mayes

Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

You must believe in your own instincts and your own instincts at any particular time and believe that they were the right…

— Dominic Cooper

There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent…

— Audrey Flack

The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It felt like I'd been playing second-string football for a long time, when, suddenly, I was playing in the Super Bowl. Even…

— Sharon Stone

Abraham Lincoln did have intellectual instincts, a tremendous curiosity on a broad range of subjects, and a near-photographic memory for what he…

— Allen C. Guelzo

That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man…

— D. H. Lawrence

I think the industry tends to like to think in the narrow sort of mindset of a businessman, and businessman absolutes, and…

— Brad Bird

“Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that…

— James Luceno

Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.

— Sarah Dessen

I go by my instinct in selecting scripts for my banner. Some times it works and some times it does not.

— Sajid Nadiadwala

No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

— Herbert Spencer

I don't think talent or an instinct for acting is something you can teach.

— Jodie Comer

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

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

— Nelly Korda

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

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