Instinct Quotes · Page 36

There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.

— David Selby

Trust your instincts. If nothing else in this world tells you the truth, they will.

— Anonymous

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

— Michel Houellebecq

“Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.”

— Leo Frobenius

Everyone is born with an instinct which balance itself with nature

— Kiula Shagile

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

— Marie Dressler

My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.

— Veronica Roth

“A dominant wolf's desire to protect was a strong instinct--Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inch, and he'd take over the…

— Patricia Briggs

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

— Susan Kay

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical…

— Albert Einstein

When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the…

— Anonymous

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and…

— Slavoj Zizek

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a…

— Francis Bacon

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that…

— Jacob Aue Sobol

I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to…

— Rachel Vincent

That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy…

— Jennifer Haigh

Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts…

— Joseph Conrad

Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and…

— Ian Stevenson

Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably…

— Peter Hessler

The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct…

— Bruce Lee

I've learned that I am strong enough. When some people might have given up, I didn't. I found myself in situations where…

— Olivier Rousteing

There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what…

— Anonymous

Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.

— Seth Godin

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

— Ilsa J. Bick

When it comes to assessing the chances of some complicated combination of events, gut feelings are pretty much useless.

— Richard Thaler

Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts.

— Mark Shields

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

— Samuel Smiles

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

— Ambrose Bierce

I don't think about making sexy clothes. It's just my instinct to make them.

— Donatella Versace

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

— David O. Selznick

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

— Henry Cantwell Wallace

Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.

— Cesar Millan

It is your instinct & passion which extracts possible from impossible.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

— Agatha Christie

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

— Emeli Sande

Sometimes it's best not to think too much and just trust what your heart knows...

— Ritu Ghatourey

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

— Robert Hugh Benson

You just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart.

— Gerard Way