Instinct Quotes
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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.
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If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.
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I've done so many movies with first-time directors, and honestly I just go with gut instinct. People that usually can tell me a good story, and talk to me about why the movie is the movie they want to make. I just go with my gut.
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When I hear health professionals suggesting that you shouldn't worry about the balance of calories in versus calories out, but rather eat clean and follow your hunger instincts, well, I really just want to pinch their heads off. That's like a millionaire suggesting that instead of worrying about that's in your bank account, just listen to your shopping instincts and buy high-quality goods . . . weight loss is not magic. To a great extent, it's accounting.
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Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
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I do think on some basic level we are animals, and by instinct we kind of breed accordingly. But as much as I believe that, I work really hard when I'm in a relationship to make it work in a monogamous way.
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[My choice about scripts] is just a question of what I fall in love with. You have to use some kind of instinct meter about it. I think I'm getting closer to my instincts now. I don't think there needs to be a plan. I think there needs to be love. I think you need to love what you're doing and then the rest is anybody's guess.
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My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.
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My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.
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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.
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I don't know if I'm teaching my kids right, but you have to go with your own instincts. You can't be so sure that other people are going to do right by you.
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I live on my gut instinct.
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For me, that's natural. The instinct to score comes naturally and if you have it, you've got to go to it.
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Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.
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Caution is the instinct of the weaker animal.
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There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent replication of life, but these are not merely replications. These paintings are often out of life scale, varying from over life-size to under life-size, from brilliant, heightened color to pale, undertone hues.
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I just follow my instinct.
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Our cultural instinct is to wait to get picked. No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.
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As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.
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I prefer not to overthink things because I think if I did I would never end up releasing anything. I tend to just follow my instincts when it comes to imagery or whatever is inspiring me. I just fit it together in a weird way, and I have to let it go at some point or else I would hold onto it forever.
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The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation.
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Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?
