Top 361 Instinctive Quotes & Sayings

In our house caring about food is pretty instinctive.

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

I am very instinctive when it comes to a script.

And children know, Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.

I think all decision making is very instinctive, in the end.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.

I'm a very instinctive person. If my heart feels I should do something, I go for it.

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

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

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

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

If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country.

I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.

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

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

I am very instinctive. When I read a script, I think, 'Is this something I would want to watch?'

prepare a little hot tea or broth and it should be brought to them . . . without their being asked if they would care for it. Those who are in great distress want no food, but if it is handed to them, they will mechanically take it ' ... There was something arresting about the matter-of-fact wisdom here, the instinctive understanding of the physiological disruptions... I will not forget the instinctive wisdom of the friend who, every day for those first few weeks, brought me a quart container of scallion-and-ginger congee from Chinatown. Congee I could eat. Congee was all I could eat.

Usually I'm a very instinctive fighter.

Love isn't rational, it's instinctive

I can get onstage and cut that off and be superinstinctive. To be a good live performer, you have to be instinctive. It's like, to walk in the jungle, or to do anything where there's a certain tightrope wire aspect you need to be instinctive. And you have to be comfortable at it also.

When I am making a film, it's very instinctive, it's not preset.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

The single most instinctive evil is discrimination

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

I'm very instinctive when I choose my roles, and usually, the number one thing has to be the director.

I like to think I'll be quite instinctive as a leader.

the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.

I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.

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

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

Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.

There are some roles that are a no-brainer. You just have a sure, instinctive 'Yes!'

The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.

But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are.

What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.

The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature.

I'm not an instinctive actor.

Racism is not primal or instinctive.

When you score a goal by dribbling you don't remember it because it is instinctive.

It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.

An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.

I can only be instinctive in my reaction to Shakespeare.

Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use.

You can't really explain why you get on well with someone. It's instinctive.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

I don't have a lot of instinctive fashion style myself.

Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos.

The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.

Singing duets is instinctive, intuitive.

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

Acting has always been instinctive to me.

There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.