Top 1200 Animal Instinct Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.

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

It's always been there, that competitive instinct... I just want to win.

Reciprocity is a deep instinct; it is the basic currency of social life.

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.

I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.

Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

It's difficult to articulate how I know it's the right actor, but I do. It's instinct. Intuition.

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It’s an animalistic instinct for survival.

You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

My killer instinct is so strong that lions call me to take lessons.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

As humans, our instinct is to be free. And any sort of restrictions don't help.

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

Gangbanging is a survival instinct, regardless of how anybody tries to paint it.

Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals.

Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

It is gut instinct that guides me when I say yes to a film.

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

I trust my gut instinct, and go against the grain and it works.

For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I told people, I take damage like a wall, a brick wall that never falls down, never feels anything, never flinches or remembers. I am one woman but I carry in my body all the stories I have ever been told, women I have known, women who have taken damage until they tell themselves they can feel no pain at all.

I'm just natural with initiative, with instinct. Paediatricians have said so themselves.

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.

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

If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

A man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct.

I strongly believe that many of the best decisions are made on gut instinct.

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality.

A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

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

I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.

There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over.

The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

In the car it is really good to have a killer instinct where you need to be aggressive.

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

The herd instinct is the new chic! It's like belonging to a club!

The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

Men have to stay strong. 'They fight, it's normal. Females don't have that instinct.

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

I think, when I'm on the court, I become with a killer instinct - a real Scorpio.

... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

It fascinates me that there's this instinct to blame something else when you're embarrassed or caught.