Instinct Quotes

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
Evelyn Waugh

Wisdom, Rich, Among

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
Hilaire Belloc

Men, Healthy, Conflict

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.
Jane Seymour

Life, Heart, Someone

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.
Florence Welch

Able, Quite, Melody

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

Playing, Style, Enthusiasm

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
Bjork

Great, Death, Young

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

Decision, Eating, Meat

After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's right for you. Everyone has an opinion, but it was all about what you do or don't do. I was so overloaded, so I let my children dictate the way things were supposed to go, and things fell into place.
Tori Spelling

Children, Pretty, After

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.
Christopher Alexander

Start, Vision, Speaking

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Will Cuppy

Same, Reason, Call

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
Bear Grylls

Good, Heart, Happen

Instinct is untaught ability.
Alexander Bain

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
W. L. George

Men, Woman, Her

When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life.
Jane Seymour

Life, Mother, Heart

I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.
Kristen Wiig

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.
Julie Walters

Learn, Rather, Makes

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.
Steve Irwin

Dad, Research, Born

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
Henri Bergson

Making, Using, Faculty

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.
Phillip Noyce

Funny, Family, Laugh

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.
Robert Rodriguez

Time, Money, Sometimes

I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.
Amber Heard

Movies, Films, Horror

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.
Theda Bara

Good, Women, Woman

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.
Theodore Dreiser

Human, Reason, Stage

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

Build, Terrace, Slippery

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

Human, Water, Near

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.
Laurence Olivier

Others, Surely, Acted

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.
Alan Sugar

Put, Learn, Bottle

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

I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.
Gina Carano

Fight, Person, Find

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
F. H. Bradley

Bad, Find, Less

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