Instinct Quotes - Page 10

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

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

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.

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.

It pays to trust your instinct.

Intuition is more than knowledge, and truth comes pure from the heart.

Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.

You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.

There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.

I trust my instincts.

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

I have a good instinct for what's real and what's not. I don't have to second-guess myself.

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

My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

Doubt everything [...]. Doubt everything at least once. What you decide to keep, you'll be able to be confident of. And what you decide to ditch, you will replace with what your instincts tell you is true.

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.