Instincts Quotes

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. Lewis

War, Different, Rest

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.
Angelina Jolie

Trust, Happy, Fun

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.
Angelina Jolie

Trust, Trouble, Logical

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
George Bernard Shaw

Enough, Few, Vitality

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus

Death, Law, Trying

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey

Wisdom, True, Follow

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Richard Branson

Business, Fun, Creative

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
Sigmund Freud

Life, Pressure, Cost

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
Bono

Change, Fun, Rock

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Aleister Crowley

Nature, Drunk, Fighting

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
Jimmy Buffett

Success, Humor, Creativity

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
David Herbert Lawrence

Good, True, Animal

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Thomas Huxley

Often, Call, Forgotten

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
Helen Rowland

Nature, Forget, Help

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'
Donald Rumsfeld

Success, Yourself, Off

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
George Santayana

Him, Less, Natural

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
John Stuart Mill

Power, Themselves, While

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Men, Through, Find

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.
David Duchovny

Live, Envy, Tell

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Mankind, Deepest, Speaks

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.
Francis Ford Coppola

Lost, Might, Ideas

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.
Hugh Jackman

Good, Best, Judge

I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
Sachin Tendulkar

Family, Home, Mind

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.
Daniel Radcliffe

Whole, Used, Joke

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.
Gordon Ramsay

Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.
Sarah Jessica Parker

Yourself, Become, Opinion

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
Alan Rickman

Time, Become, Acting

I've always kind of done exactly what my instincts said.
Sienna Miller

Done, Said, Exactly

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
Gerald R. Ford

Best, End, Confidence

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