Instinct Quotes

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that.

Making movies is all about instinct.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.