Instinct Quotes - Page 14

Understand the "Gretzky Factor": Cultivate an instinct, a "touch", call it what you will, that enables you to know both where the "puck" is now and where it will be soon.

I was an English major in college, I went to a creative-writing program, and all my life, I really read and thought about fiction as a craft and an art form. I feel like I know a lot about it, and can trust my instincts.

Stick to your instincts.

I don't have a very good relationship with baking. I do bake sometimes, but my natural instinct is to just do what feels right a lot, and that's what you're not supposed to do in baking. I'm not a good baker.

Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.

Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.

Always trust your instinct.

That is what's disconcerting about working on the show, you can't seem to get an instinct about what works and what doesn't. It happens a lot, and in different ways.

Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

The first instinct is love.

If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.

Let passion be your muse. Let her guide and teach you to trust your instincts.

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle.

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

Generally, I have an instinct for the noncommercial. And the unpopular.

Listen to your instincts, then do the opposite.

Never to be frightened of taking risks and always follow your instincts!

I don't have a lot of physical comedy instincts. I'm more verbal.

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.