Instinct Quotes

1476 Instinct quotes by 1077 unique authors

Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said… — Phyllis George
I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing.… — Barry Hannah
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy — Leo Tolstoy
The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the… — Emir Kusturica
I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people. — Gary Kemp
My instinct is to be very controlling. — Gary Kemp
If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight… — Oriana Fallaci
I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my… — Sophie Kinsella
Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the… — Steven Pinker
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable… — Woodrow Wilson
There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It… — Paul Samuelson
He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no right to despair.… — Elie Wiesel
You never have to second guess a person or your feelings and instincts about that person if you pay attention to their actions, not solely… — Jody Watley
These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for,… — Patricia Hampl
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in… — Sonya Levien
I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I… — Katie Leung
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and… — Francis William Newman
I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards. — Austin Peck
I act with my gut instincts. — Alanna Ubach
The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section… — Cole Younger
Why does soldiers leave the protection of his trench hole in the ground and go forward in the face of shot and shell? It is… — Bernard Law Montgomery
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that… — William Ralph Inge
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent. — Isaac Newton
Because one has the animal instinct to seek out the people that suits one - you see people that go on life's journeys and get… — Charlotte Rampling
The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that you can say… — Norman Lear

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