Instinct Quotes - Page 17

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.

When somebody is doing something really funny, in real life and as a performer, my instinct is to join them.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.

I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.

You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts.

We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

You just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart.

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.

My instinct is to be very controlling.

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.

Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.

Whenever I've gone against my instincts, it's been a bit of a disaster. If there's a script I'm considering, I will get everyone to read it. I will get my mom to read it, I will get my friends to read it, I'll get the person doing my manicure to read it. I'm someone who really needs to talk things through. And then, obviously, I have a wonderful manager and agents, and I listen very carefully to what they have to say as well.

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.

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

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.