Instinct Quotes
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Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later.
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The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
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Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.
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If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.
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The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our instincts believe the former; so that, out of this education, we retain the terror, and just believe enough to make it very troublesome whenever we are placed in circumstances that awaken it.
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I live on my gut instinct.
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I just follow my instinct.
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It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.
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Since then, my approach to all things spiritual is rather cynical you could say. When somebody present something to me as spiritual, my first instinct is to be cynical and think, "oh yeah, one of those again." You see so much of it see in "spiritual culture" and people get very excited about it. It's all very "hoo haw."
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Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.
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You have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day.
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All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
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I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying.
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Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by a greater number whose instinct is to make a deal before they make a decision.
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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?
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The first instinct is love.
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I don't really look at other people's moves because, when I'm on the field, I'm not going to remember them. It's just something that has a lot to do with instinct and vision and all those running back aspects you have. You put them all into a basket, and you just use them on the field and go out there and make plays.
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Follow your instinct. That's my message.
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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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Dont listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, theyd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.
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No other instinct can so satisfy without accomplishing its biological purpose, and no other instinct is so disconnected from its purpose.
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I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.
