Instinct Quotes

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.

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.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

For me, that's natural. The instinct to score comes naturally and if you have it, you've got to go to it.

I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.