Instincts Quotes

• It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad masses of its adherents.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Propaganda
  • Instincts
  • Adherent

• You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you’ll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

  

  Francis Ford Coppola
  • Ideas
  • To Be
  • Courageous

• I don’t follow fashion and I don’t follow trends, I just follow my instincts...

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Fashion
  • Instincts
  • Trends

• Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

  

  Will Durant
  • Destroy
  • Instincts
  • Recreates

• When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong.

  

  Alex Breckenridge
  • Mind
  • Reading
  • Instincts

• Trust your instincts: If your instincts have always served you well, trust them and follow them.

  

  Joy Mangano
  • Trust
  • Follow
  • Instincts

• Don’t always consider all your options. Don’t necessarily go for the outcome that seems best every time. Make a mess on occasion. Travel light. Let things wait. Trust your instincts and don’t think too long. Relax. Toss a coin. Forgive, but don’t forget. To thine own self be true.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Trust
  • Outcome
  • Occasion

• It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

  

  Hart Crane
  • Energy
  • Patience
  • Materials

• Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Powers
  • Captain Nemo
  • Shellsish

• ... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of His, they must be reared and fostered, or it is as natural that they should be wholly obscured, and that new feelings should usurp their place, as it is that the sweetest productions of the earth, left untended, should be choked with weeds and briers.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Feelings
  • Works
  • Productions

• 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 them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Insecurity

• Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Instincts
  • Abilities
  • Man Is

• Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Actor
  • Discipline
  • Sacrifice

• The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother to show it to my agent or editor. He's a truly great writer - author of Gates of the Alamo and other books you might know of, and his instincts about what's working in a story, and what's not, are just about perfect. My books would be very different without his influence.

  

  Elizabeth Crook
  • Influence
  • Author
  • Editor

• When corruption is king, there is no accountability of leadership and no trust in authority. Society devolves to the basic units of family and self, to the basic instincts of getting what you can when you can, because you don't believe anything better will ever come along. And when the only horizon is tomorrow, how can you care about the kind of nation you are building for your children and your grandchildren? How can you call on your government to address what ails society and build stronger institutions?

  

  Nuhu Ribadu
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Society

• Survival instincts are one of those things that never die.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Survival
  • Instincts

• Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses.

  

  Noel Coward
  • Trust
  • Instincts
  • Impulses

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

  

  Eliot Porter
  • Emotions
  • Interests
  • Instincts

• Every time I trust my instincts I land on my feet and every time I don't, I go, "Why didn't I trust my instinct?"

  

  Brad Furman
  • Trust
  • Feet
  • Instincts

• American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Advertising
  • American Culture
  • Christian Culture

• Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else.

  

  Judith McNaught
  • Ignore
  • Instincts
  • Everything Else

• Landing on his feet was nothing new to Caleb. He did not believe in luck, he believed in the law of nature. Animals did not rely on luck. They lived and died by their instincts.

  

  Arlene Hunt
  • Nature
  • Luck
  • Instincts

• Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Sure
  • Spend
  • Instincts

• Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.

  

  Dan Mathews
  • Compassion
  • Something
  • Naturally

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