Instinct Quotes

1476 Instinct quotes by 1077 unique authors

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far… — Charlie Chaplin
Golf is a difficult game, but it's a little easier if you trust your instincts. It's too hard a game to try to play like… — Nancy Lopez
My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy, and move on without any kind of hesitation at all. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over. — Unknown Author
You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you… — Bill Russell
One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because… — Jesse Owens
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies… — Steven Pinker
I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. Yes, we are old already. We are rotten to the marrow. We have… — Adolf Hitler
Trust your instincts, and take control. — Unknown Author
Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and died very quickly… — Ian Stevenson
There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees. — Unknown Author
Believe it or not, I'm not really thinking about anything when I putt....It's hard to teach. I let my instincts take over. I like to… — Brad Faxon
In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary.… — Robert Harris
Your final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought. — David Leadbetter
Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help… — Salma Hayek
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything.… — Raymond Chandler
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental… — Charles Darwin
Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others. — Timothy Leary
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives… — Thorstein Veblen
If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for… — Albert Einstein
[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst… — Barbara Pym
It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct. — W. Somerset Maugham
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows… — John Donne
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the… — Alfred North Whitehead

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