Instinct Quotes

• You have to trust your instincts and know that the right question or the right answer will come to you. You don’t always have to have the solution to the problem; sometimes it’s very interesting to watch somebody go through the process of solving the problem, but it’s got to be truthful.

  

  Cat Deeley
  • Interesting
  • Problem
  • Sometimes

• 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
  • Worry
  • Audience
  • Approach

• The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.

  

  Boris Sidis
  • Worry
  • Diseases
  • Manifestations

• The only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. It was only really one time.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Time
  • Instinct
  • Gone

• The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Process
  • Instinct
  • Feverishness

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Creative

• 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
  • Men
  • Faces
  • Temptation

• The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Life
  • Death
  • Instinct

• I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Feelings
  • Criticism
  • Composer

• I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman's motherly instincts.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Men
  • Genius
  • Boys

• 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
  • Music
  • Instinct
  • Instruments

• There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Study
  • Critics
  • Complicated

• I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

  

  Socrates
  • Wisdom
  • Poetry
  • Inspiration

• 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
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Happiness
  • Instinct
  • Teaches

• The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Culture
  • Fear
  • Like

• My family especially has always taught me to be myself and not let other people's opinions change me. To always believe my instincts and follow my heart.

  

  Witney Carson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Family

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

  

  Apostolos Doxiadis
  • Habit
  • Emotion
  • Instinct

• 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

• Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Mistake
  • Intuition

• The thing is, with 'This Is England', you're always thinking as yourself. You're acting on an instinct. You're acting on what you've heard, what you've been told, and what's happened beforehand.

  

  Michael Socha
  • Yourself
  • England
  • Beforehand

• 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

• By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

  

  Errol Flynn
  • Choices
  • Actors
  • Luck

• 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
  • Doubt
  • Instinct

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