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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.
My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.
By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.
I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.
Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.
When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.
Ochocinco had a rare instinct for making himself an almost daily story.
Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.
The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.
It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.
My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!
I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.
The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.
I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.
I don't think about making sexy clothes. It's just my instinct to make them.
I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.
I definitely go on gut instinct but it has always had the back up of research and information.
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.
The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.
It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.
An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.
Women have an instinct for what the market is. We have tremendous insight in terms of understanding products and consumerism.
I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.
Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.
Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.
For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
As a global disrupter, Uber is no stranger to conflict, and its instinct has always been pugilistic.
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.
I am, by instinct, wary of revolutions. The gathering of the masses fills me with trepidation.
Fear is always there; it's a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.
I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.
Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.
Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.
I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.
doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct
Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.
The instinct to notice changes gives women a tremendous advantage over men.
Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.
I am a perfect case study for the transition from no maternal instinct to the love of motherhood.
The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.
Your instinct when someone is busy is to give them the least amount of work so that they can do it.
If I hear a song that I like, my first instinct is to find out about who made it.
That`s instinct, you catch and you shoot. I`ve done it hundreds of thousands of times in my driveway. It`s what I`ve practiced.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold.
Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.
Self-preservation shouldn't be the first instinct in politics. It should be doing the right thing for the country.
