Instinct Quotes

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

When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.

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

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

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

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

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

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

My instinct is to be very controlling.

Making movies is all about instinct.

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

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

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!

Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

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

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

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

I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.

I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that.

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning.

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

When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

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

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

I don't always just want to do the same thing.

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

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