Top 1200 Instinct Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Alec licked his spoon, then set it on the table and popped his drink open. "Okay, I may be breaking some kind of girl bonding rule or something, but can I offer you a guy's perspective on this?" I frowned, my spoon halfway to my mouth. "Is this gonna make me want to hit you?" He shrugged. "Maybe. But it's the truth. Here goes: kissing back is an instinct. Unless the girl smells like a sewer or has tentacles feeling you up independently, a guy's first instinct is to kiss back. That's how it works. What's important is how long that kissing back lasted. So...how long?

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

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

Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

I follow my heart and my instinct about films and people.

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

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

You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.

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

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

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.

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

We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage

To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.

It's a quality you need to be a world champion; you have to have that killer instinct.

There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.

How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.

I wasn't part of any movement. I was working alone, following my instinct.

Sorry. An overdeveloped nurturing instinct comes with being a healer.

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

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

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

I have a motherly instinct and I'm always trying to give therapy.

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

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

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

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

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

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

You have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day.

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

Politicians have an acutely honed instinct for self-preservation.

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

I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.

I have never been able to go against my instinct.

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

My watchful animal instinct to avoid people is almost overpowering.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

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

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

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

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

I have always had a performers instinct since I was a child.

Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

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