Instinct Quotes:

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

- Agatha Christie

topic: Ignored, Instinct, Marvelous Things

I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,” said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.

- Agatha Christie

topic: People, Instinct, Said

I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.

- Al Sharpton

topic: Instinct

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

- Alan Bennett

topic: War, Instinct, Scope

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

- Alan Sugar

topic: Bottles, Instinct, Entrepreneurial

I act with my gut instincts.

- Alanna Ubach

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Instinct, Gut Instinct, Guts

When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.

- Albert J. Nock

topic: Benefits, Instinct, States

My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

- Albert Rosenfeld

topic: Men, Goodness, Instinct

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Suits, Reason, Instinct

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Volunteer, Honest, Instinct

How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Instinct, Swine, Vary

Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.

- Alexandra Kollontai

topic: Hunger, Instinct, Sexuality

Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.

- Allan Bloom

topic: Children, Instinct, Natural

You should always trust the instincts of children.

- Ally Carter

topic: Children, Instinct, Should

When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Firsts, Instinct

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

- Amelie Nothomb

source: "The outsider" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

topic: Movement, Firsts, Instinct

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

topic: Intuition, Speak, Instinct, Criminal Mind

Doubt everything [...]. Doubt everything at least once. What you decide to keep, you'll be able to be confident of. And what you decide to ditch, you will replace with what your instincts tell you is true.

- Amy Plum

topic: Doubt, Able, Instinct

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

- Andrea Arnold

source: Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 7, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Instinct, Should

I don't really follow market research. In the end, I respond to my own instincts.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Research, Instinct, Ends, Market Research

Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.

- Anne Fortier

topic: Reason, Instinct, Used

The more knowledge you have, the more you're free to rely on your instincts.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Instinct, Rely, More Knowledge

I know I have pretty good instincts.

- Ashley Tisdale

topic: Instinct

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

- Austin Peck

topic: Thinking, Comedy, Instinct

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

- Barbara Corcoran

topic: Motivational, Underestimate, Instinct, Natural Instinct

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.

- Barbara Demick

source: Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.60, Granta

topic: Optimistic, Survival, Instinct, Survival Instinct

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.

- Barbara Mertz

topic: Dust, Instinct, Scholarly

There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.

- Barbara Pym

topic: Long, Instinct, Spite

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

- Barbra Streisand

topic: Worry, Experience, Instinct, Natural Instinct

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

topic: Reason, Instinct, Familiarity

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

- Ben Elton

topic: Comedy, Instinct

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

source: "Bertolucci on Bertolucci". Interview with Rebecca Stokes, www.moma.org. January 3, 2011.

topic: Thinking, Sometimes, Instinct

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Sex, People, Instinct

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Men, Useless, Instinct

There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Worship, Instinct

I trust my instincts.

- Billy Zane

topic: Instinct

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Looks, Instinct, Teach

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct.

- Boris Sidis

source: "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 311), 1922.

topic: Self, Instinct, Institutions, Self Preservation

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

- Boz Scaggs

topic: Musical, Steps, Instinct

Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

- Bruce H. Lipton

topic: Survival, Shelter, Instinct

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

- Carla Gugino

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Artist, Thinking, Instinct

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

- Cesar Millan

source: Twitter post from Oct 6, 2012

topic: Dog, Stories, Instinct, Trust Your Instincts

Never presume that I will not act on my worst instincts.

- Cesare Borgia

topic: Instinct, Worst

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

- Charles Comiskey

topic: Honesty, Jail, Instinct, Natural Instinct

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

- Charles Darwin

topic: Simple, Bees, Instinct, Beehives

There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.

- Charles Duhigg

topic: Fighting, Embedded, Instinct, Natural Instinct

The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.

- Charles Macklin

topic: Instinct, Mankind, Interest

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

- Charles Sanders Peirce

source: Charles Sanders Peirce (1992). “Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898”, p.121, Harvard University Press

topic: Soul, Reason, Instinct

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.

- Chris Bosh

topic: Pity, Instinct, Just Listen

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

- Chris Hughes

topic: Inspirational, Needs, Instinct, Trust Your Instincts, Adviser

Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.

- Christian Dior

topic: Beautiful, Intention, Instinct

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

- Christopher Alexander

topic: Vision, Instinct, Arise, Builder

There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over.

- Cindy Nelson

topic: Basketball, Practice, Instinct

If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

- Clare Boothe Luce

topic: Husband, Adultery, Instinct

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Action, Emotion, Instinct, Human Actions

Reason is the servant of instinct.

- Clarence Day

topic: Intuition, Reason, Instinct

When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is allowed its freedom, the healthy instinct to flee is hugely diminished, and the creature stays put instead.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

topic: Healthy, Violence, Instinct

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.

- Claude Monet

topic: Thinking, Singers, Instinct, Impressionists, Impressionism

I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't.

- Claudette Colbert

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Acting, Instinct, Always Believe

You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Actors, Moments, Instinct

From when I was really young one of the first things I did was to perform and do shows. It was like a natural instinct.

- Colin Morgan

topic: Firsts, Instinct, Natural

It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.

- Conway Twitty

topic: Voice, Instinct

What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Desire, Instinct, Instinct Intuition

Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.

- Daisy Whitney

topic: Sometimes, Instinct

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.

- Daniel Radcliffe

topic: Actors, Hitting, Instinct, Trust Your Instincts

Everything is instincts when returning kicks.

- Dante Hall

topic: Instinct, Kicks

I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.

- David O. Russell

topic: Careers, Fighter, Instinct

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

- Dawn Powell

source: Dawn Powell (2001). “Novels, 1930-1942”

topic: Forests, Rich, Instinct

Intuition is seeing with the soul.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Soul, Intuition, Instinct

When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.

- Didi Conn

source: "I was the 'queen of denial' on autism" by Didi Conn, www.cnn.com. April 2, 2009.

topic: Children, Firsts, Instinct

Making movies is all about instinct.

- Dino De Laurentiis

topic: Instinct

Intuition is more than knowledge, and truth comes pure from the heart.

- Don Bradley

topic: Heart, Intuition, Instinct

I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.

- Donna Murphy

topic: Sometimes, Instinct, Force

If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting

- Dorian Yates

topic: Bars, Pounds, Instinct

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.

- Edith Head

source: EDITH HEAD (1959). “The Dress Doctor”

topic: Fashion, Language, Instinct

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

- Edith Piaf

topic: Instinct, Streets, Conservatory

My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

- Eliot Porter

topic: Photography, Emotion, Instinct

Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

topic: Trying, Sides, Instinct

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

- Emeli Sande

topic: Would Be, Instinct, Lost, Courage To Love

Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

- Emily Eden

source: Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.120

topic: Keeping Secrets, Fool, Instinct, Hardiness

All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.

- Emma Watson

source: FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Aug 20, 2012

topic: Instinct, Please, Watson

Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

- Erwin McManus

topic: Alive, Longing, Instinct

The herd instinct is the new chic! It's like belonging to a club!...

- Eugenia Sheppard

topic: Clubs, Instinct, Herds

I've had a great life following my faith and my instincts.

- Evander Holyfield

topic: Mma, Instinct, Following

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

- Evelyn Glennie

topic: Kind, Scottish, Instinct, Traditional Music

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

- F. H. Bradley

source: Appearance and Reality (1893) preface

topic: Believe, Reason, Instinct

Never give up, trust your instincts!

- Falco

topic: Giving Up, Instinct, Giving, Trust Your Instincts

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

- Finley Peter Dunne

topic: Marriage, Wife, Instinct

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

- Frances Mayes

topic: Smell, Matter, Instinct

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 all necessary.

- Francis William Newman

topic: Powerful, Men, Instinct

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

- Fred Frith

topic: Intuition, Instinct

I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

- Gary Gygax

topic: Risk, Instinct, Gut Instinct

My instinct is to be very controlling.

- Gary Kemp

topic: Instinct

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

- George Jean Nathan

topic: Men, Intuition, Instinct

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

- George Orwell

topic: Stupidity, Instinct, Cowardice, Sabotage

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

- Georgette Heyer

topic: Self, Three, Instinct, Quick Witted, Three Sisters

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

- Gerald R. Ford

topic: Honesty, President, Instinct

You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts.

- Gordon Korman

topic: Instinct, Armstrong, Foreheads

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

- Gordon Ramsay

topic: Instinct, Impulse

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

- Greta Gerwig

source: "'Indie Darling' Greta Gerwig, Making A Bigger Splash". Interview with Robert Siegel, krwg.org. April 11, 2012.

topic: Done, Instinct, Plans

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

- Harold Brodkey

topic: Winning, Instinct

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Might, Talent, Instinct, Gut Instinct

You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Talent, Hungry, Instinct

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

- Hector Hugh Munro

source: Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"

topic: Happiness, Unhappy, Instinct, Asparagus, Being Unhappy

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

- Henri Bergson

source: Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”

topic: Intuition, Analysis, Instinct

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

- Henri Bergson

topic: Intuition, Instinct, Faculty, Natural Instinct

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Faith, Instinct, Proof, Certitude

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Earth, Spontaneity, Instinct

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

- Henry Cantwell Wallace

topic: Human Nature, Instinct, Crops

Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.

- Henry Winkler

topic: Voice, Instinct, Inner Voice

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

- Henryk Sienkiewicz

source: Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

topic: Enemy, Moral, Instinct

The Killer instinct is not perceived by words, but by look.

- Hiroya Oku

topic: Looks, Killers, Instinct, Killer Instinct

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

- Holbrook Jackson

topic: Intuition, Reason, Instinct

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

- Holland Taylor

topic: People, Interesting, Instinct, Maternal Instinct

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Sacrifice, Men, Instinct, Courtesans, Making Sacrifices

Those who have gone through the high school of reporterdom have acquired a new instinct by which they see and hear only that which can create a sensation, and accordingly their report becomes not only a careless one, but hopelessly distorted.

- Hugo Munsterberg

topic: School, Gone, Instinct

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

- Ilsa J. Bick

topic: Looks, Instinct, Drowning

You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

- Ingrid Bergman

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Voice, Intuition, Instinct, Trust Your Intuition, Small Voice

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

- Isabelle Adjani

topic: Intuition, Today, Instinct, Trust Myself, Natural Instinct

We heed no instincts but our own.

- Jean de La Fontaine

topic: Instinct, Miscellaneous, Heed

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

- Jean-Henri Fabre

topic: Past, Fossils, Instinct

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

- Jean-Philippe Rameau

topic: Morality, Reason, Instinct

I think everyone should follow their instincts, and go with what they feel, and follow their heart.

- Jena Malone

topic: Heart, Thinking, Instinct

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

- Jennifer Capriati

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Knowing, Balls, Instinct, Knowing What To Do

Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.

- Jennifer Estep

topic: Killers, Instinct, Reaper, Killer Instinct

I write out of instinct.

- Jerome Weidman

topic: Writing, Instinct

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.

- Jerry Falwell

topic: Believe, Desire, Instinct

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

- Jerry Lewis

topic: Doors, Common Sense, Instinct

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Venture, Failing, Instinct

The apostles had this instinct: When in trouble, pray. When intimidated, pray. When challenged, pray. When persecuted, pray!

- Jim Cymbala

source: Twitter post from May 06, 2014

topic: Praying, Trouble, Instinct, Apostles

It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

- Jim Shepard

topic: Intuition, Genius, Instinct

I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

- Jim Sturgess

topic: Cities, Instinct, Persons

One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.

- Joan Fontaine

topic: Sex, Men, Instinct, Puzzling

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Family, Mother, Instinct

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

- John Astin

topic: Intuition, Development, Instinct, Stages Of Development

Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.

- John Galsworthy

source: John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.2146, Delphi Classics

topic: Sex, Unions, Instinct

Trust your instincts, and take control.

- John Houston

topic: Motivation, Instinct, Trust Your Instincts, Take Control

I will follow my instincts, and be myself for good or ill.

- John Muir

topic: Free Spirit, Instinct, Ill

That`s instinct, you catch and you shoot. I`ve done it hundreds of thousands of times in my driveway. It`s what I`ve practiced.

- John Paxson

topic: Done, Instinct, Driveway

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

- John Ray

topic: Use, Reason, Instinct

In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.

- Jonathan Cainer

topic: Absence, Instinct, Certainty

My instincts are not comedic.

- Josh Lucas

source: Interview With Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 24, 2002.

topic: Instinct, Comedic

Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else.

- Judith McNaught

topic: Instinct

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

- Julia Ward Howe

source: Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

topic: Forgive Me, Forgiving, Instinct, God Forgives, God Forgive Me

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.

- Julie Delpy

topic: Acting, Want, Instinct

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

- Julie Walters

topic: Thinking, Comedy, Instinct

It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.

- Karen Gillan

topic: Work Out, Instinct, Should, Gut Instinct

To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.

- Karl A. Menninger

topic: Mean, Instinct, Know Thyself, Malignancy

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

- Karl Abraham

source: Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis”, p.137, Karnac Books

topic: Able, Instinct, Assault, Repression, Mania

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

- Karl Abraham

source: Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”

topic: Normal, Patient, Instinct

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Inspirational, Marketing, Instinct

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Survival, Stronger, Instinct

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

topic: Art, Enthusiasm, Instinct, Folk Art

I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

- Kate Burton

topic: Character, Actresses, Instinct

My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, "No, Mummy, you can't wear that." She's very good. I do trust her instinct.

- Kate Moss

topic: Daughter, Style, Instinct

I have a confidence because my research shows that I should just really trust my instincts.

- Katy Perry

source: Interview with Kristen Wiig, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2012.

topic: Instinct

What I was doing when I was creating my werewolves is really basing them on a wild wolf pack, as much as possible. It's not as if being bitten brings you in, but what it does is that it strengthens that instinct for pack. It strengthens that instinct to need to be with others who are like you, and to form tight bonds, as an actual wolf pack does.

- Kelley Armstrong

topic: Like You, Instinct, Werewolf, Wolf Packs

Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.

- Ken Danby

topic: Judgment, Instinct, Conscious, Trust Your Instincts

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

- Kenneth Grahame

topic: Information, Instinct, Strongest

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

- Kenneth Tynan

topic: Theatre, Instinct, Peeping

I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way. ~Train Heartnet

- Kentaro Yabuki

topic: Fun, Way, Instinct, Train Heartnet

Survival instincts are one of those things that never die.

- Kiersten White

topic: Survival, Instinct, Survival Instinct

The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong.

- Konrad Lorenz

topic: Organization, Way, Instinct

I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.

- Kristen Wiig

source: "My Brilliant Career: Kristen Wiig" by Rachel Rosenblit, www.elle.com. March 19, 2010.

topic: Instinct

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

- Lance Reddick

source: Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2008.

topic: Auditions, Instinct, Notes

His instincts should have warned him sooner than they had, but thanks to his agimortus, he'd been hobbled like a brood mare waiting to be mounted by a randy stallion

- Larissa Ione

topic: Waiting, Thanks, Instinct, Stallions, Randy

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

- Laurence Olivier

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Intuition, Instinct, Inherent, Natural Instinct

Instinct is the direct connection with truth.

- Laurette Taylor

source: "The Quality You Need Most". "Green Book Magazine", April 1914.

topic: Connections, Instinct, Direct

Before you look to blame another, look within yourself, for at some point you have not listened to your own instincts.

- Leon Brown

topic: Looks, Blame, Instinct

Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

- Lewis Gordon

source: "Achieving The Impossible". Book by Lewis Gordon Pugh, 2010.

topic: Decision, Tides, Instinct, Natural Consequences

Its the difference between instinct and intuition,

- Liev Schreiber

topic: Differences, Intuition, Instinct

My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!

- Lindsay Lohan

topic: Buying, Firsts, Instinct

I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.

- Lindsey Buckingham

topic: Instinct

The best decisions aren't made with your mind, but with your Instinct.

- Lionel Messi

topic: Decision, Mind, Instinct

I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!

- Liz Phair

topic: Nice, Would Be, Instinct

The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure.

- Lofty Wiseman

topic: Survival, Body, Instinct

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

- Lori Greiner

source: FaceBook post by Lori Greiner from Oct 01, 2013

topic: Knowing, Instinct, Going To Work

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.

- Louis Untermeyer

topic: Writing, Reason, Instinct

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

- Luigi Pirandello

topic: Instinct

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

- Manuel Puig

topic: Intuition, Path, Instinct

Sorry. An overdeveloped nurturing instinct comes with being a healer.

- Maria V. Snyder

topic: Sorry, Instinct, Nurturing, Healer

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Intuition, Instinct, Instinct Intuition

My gut and intuition told me it wasn't time to do this.

- Mario Vazquez

source: "'American Idol' Dropout Visits Letterman". www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2005.

topic: Intuition, Instinct, Guts

The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Issues, Life Is, Instinct, Drum Major

A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer ...

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “The Last Man”, p.583, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

topic: Travel, Instinct, Solitary, Wanderers

We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage

- Maurice Barres

topic: Antiques, Instinct, Biking

To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.

- Maurice Blondel

topic: Humanity, Deceit, Instinct

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

- Max Beerbohm

source: "Yet Again".

topic: Nature, Instinct, Strongest, Natural Instinct

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

- Max Beerbohm

topic: Pride, Instinct, Egoism

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

- Max Eastman

topic: Pain, Laughter, Instinct, Humor And Laughter, Humor Laughter

I live on my gut instinct.

- Melanie Brown

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Instinct, Gut Instinct, Guts

the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

- Melanie Klein

source: Melanie Klein (2002). “Envy and Gratitude”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

topic: Life And Death, Anxiety, Instinct

Trust your instincts, trust your judgment.

- Melissa Marr

topic: Judgment, Instinct, Trust Your Instincts

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

- Michel Houellebecq

topic: Giving Up, Seduction, Instinct

I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.

- Michka Assayas

source: Michka Assayas (2006). “Bono”, p.92, Penguin

topic: Instinct, Figures, Intellect

One thing I have learned is that I should trust my 'gut' instincts. Ultimately, only we know what is best for us.

- Miranda Kerr

topic: Instinct, Should, I Have Learned

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

- Muhammad Iqbal

source: Sir Muhammad Iqbal, University of the Punjab. Dept. of Iqbal Studies, University of the Punjab (1982). “Iqbal centenary papers”

topic: Passion, Men, Instinct

Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.

- Murray Mexted

topic: Men, Firsts, Instinct

...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Taught, Instinct, Wartime

I have really good instincts about friends.

- Nicole Richie

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Instinct