Instinct Quotes

• Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Men
  • Improvement
  • Coal

• A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Novelist
  • Prostitute
  • Pornographic

• My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Dark
  • Natural
  • Neighborhood

• I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Common

• The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings.

  

  Apostolos Doxiadis
  • Habit
  • Emotion
  • Instinct

• Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • Walking
  • Cat

• This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Reflection
  • Taboo
  • Associative Paths

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

  

  Claudette Colbert
  • Start
  • Instinct

• The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar taste and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

  

  Mick Taylor The Rolling Stones
  • Thing
  • Instinct
  • Follow

• I prepare to the point where instinct take over.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Point
  • Instinct
  • Prepare

• Nature is so huge. I mean, you can't even look one way! Everything is huge. That was my natural instinct, to create huge art, to create huge pieces. And to me, I still could create bigger works. The opportunity doesn't come along to do anything any bigger. So I've worked as big as I've had the opportunity to work, basically.

  

  Willie Herron
  • Opportunity
  • Natural
  • Instinct

• Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Children
  • Love
  • Know

• I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it's hard to hear sometimes, because it's a noisy world and there's a lot of people talking to you.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • People
  • World
  • Direction

• I've always been willing to take challenges, I grew up taking challenges: being an only child, having a mother, no father, I've always been one who has always done things the way I thought they should be done and not, and not having to answer to anybody for it and I've always taken my own chances and I've always followed by instincts according, mother would follow, follow wit, instincts, wisdom, whatever, always followed that.

  

  Teddy Pendergrass
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Healthy
  • Intelligence

• My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Done
  • Hope
  • Positive

• To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object.

  

  William Beebe
  • Writing
  • Reason
  • Safety

• Don't be bitter and mean 'couse you don’t fit in, it’s a GIFT. Look at you. you’ve got your individuality, you don’t have the herd instinct, you can read Neitzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Happy
  • Gift

• 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
  • Instinct
  • Insects
  • Brutes

• I know when people are with me or not. It's an instinct.

  

  YoungBoy Never Broke Again
  • People
  • Instinct
  • With Me

• Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Cutting
  • Importance
  • Instinct

• Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Instinct
  • Forgets
  • Burns

• When you're living by instinct, then you will naturally enhance everything and everyone around you. In other words, success will come naturally! When both your intellect and instincts are aligned, then producing the fruits of your labors brings satisfaction beyond measure.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Success
  • Words
  • Satisfaction

• In martial arts, the way that they train really does channel that killer instinct. We used to put motorcycle helmets on and go full force at each other with these sticks to train.

  

  Jose Pablo Cantillo
  • Train
  • Instinct
  • Martial Arts

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