Instincts Quotes

I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off."

To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!

I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.

Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.

I act with my gut instincts.

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

I've always kind of done exactly what my instincts said.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.

I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.