Instinctive Quotes

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

I'm not an instinctive actor.

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.

So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.