Instinct Quotes
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The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Some plays just come out of me, just on instincts. I'll make a play and wonder, How did I do that?
Roberto Alomar
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Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.
Alexandra Kollontai -
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.
William Ellery Channing -
We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.
Sigmund Freud -
If I have ideas, I want to put them in the movie. It's not a minimalist approach at all but I feel like it's for the audience. It's about seeing how much texture we can give it and seeing how many things are there for people to latch on to... I just want to do it the way I want and I feel like it won't be helpful for me if I start worrying about that. I just have to follow my instincts. Everyone is going to respond differently to it and everybody's right - that's their point of view. That's how the story intersects with their lives.
Wes Anderson -
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
William James -
Some of my instincts are reprehensible.
William Francis Buckley
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Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.
William Shakespeare -
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 -
That's what everyone thinks--they think being a cop is about punishing people for doing wrong. But that's not true. You know it isn't. It's about believing in people, believing in the good. In the will of people to do what's right despite their own instincts.
Scott Snyder -
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
William Wordsworth -
If you feel something artistic, you need to get it out of you, do it. You gotta get out and play in front of people. You can't stay in the bedroom, get out sooner rather than later. Use your gut instinct.
Chris Wyse -
If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce.
Seth Godin
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The only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. It was only really one time.
Julia Roberts -
Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.
Henry Winkler -
The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
Francis Bacon -
Hey, this has been said before over the past century or so. But there's a survival instinct going on that is demonstrated on a small scale here.
Gene Scott -
We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.
Robert Rodriguez Chingon
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Who's to say what would have happened if I had trusted my instincts and moved to New York like I thought I would.
Zachary Quinto -
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
Virginia Woolf -
I used to play a few instruments including guitar and snare drums, but I think a musical background is an important part of a career. If you start out playing instruments you create a better instinct and feeling for music.
Nicky Romero -
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
Blaise Pascal