Instinct Quotes · Page 37

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.

— Shonda Rhimes

My music is born from instinct. I react to situations a script may provide while creating a song.

— Amit Trivedi

I strongly believe that many of the best decisions are made on gut instinct.

— Emilia Wickstead

I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was…

— Laura Linney

Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.

— Eric Liddell

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

— Lynn Abbey

“Instinct is a marvellous thing," mused Poirot. "It can neither be explained nor ignored.”

— Agatha Christie

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which…

— Blaise Pascal

Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That's kind of how I live my life,…

— Michael B. Jordan

I do think Donald Trump has conservative instincts. I think he had anti-Obama instincts. I think he saw Obamacare, the Obama foreign…

— Matt Schlapp

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors…

— Ang Lee

I think for folks of color the key to combatting racism period is a) trusting their instincts and b) solidarity with one…

— Tim Wise

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange…

— Loren Eiseley

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from…

— Michael Ovitz

When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were,…

— Anderson Cooper

We're told, often enough, that as a species we are poised on the edge of the abyss. It's possible that our puffed-up,…

— Arundhati Roy

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely…

— David Deutsch

I looked to animal and insect imagery to develop the lack of substance and wasted motion that my Terminator has. I tried…

— Robert Patrick

Since then, my approach to all things spiritual is rather cynical you could say. When somebody present something to me as spiritual,…

— Brad Warner

In general, I've found female protagonists more intriguing to work with than males. I cherish women and have always preferred their company,…

— Tom Robbins

You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the…

— Asger Jorn

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

— George Orwell

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I don't follow fashion and I don't follow trends, I just follow my instincts

— Victoria Beckham

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

— Ouida

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

— St. Vincent

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.

— Phyllis McGinley

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

— Casey Stoner

For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.

— Salman Rushdie

You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

— Sugar Ray Robinson

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

— Chris Hughes

I'm so indecisive that I can't pick a favorite color, and I'm allergic to 12 things.

— Emma Gonzalez

“Regular people have such a hard time listening to the low hum of instinct.”

— Suzanne Palmieri

When your gut is telling you something is wrong...well follow your gut feeling because usually something is wrong.

— Anonymous

You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

— Steve Jobs

When there's no turning back, your instincts will lead you forward.

— T. D. Jakes

Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one

— Harry S Truman