Instinct Quotes - Page 3

To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.

Any person by nature has inherent capabilities. You have to trust your instincts and act with spontaneity.

Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from within. And yet the same instinct tells us that this change is a recovery of that which is deepest, most original, most personal in ourselves. To be born again is not to become somebody else, but to become ourselves.

I work on instinct. It's my best adviser.

You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.

A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

I feel what is in the air. I go with my instinct.

From when I was really young one of the first things I did was to perform and do shows. It was like a natural instinct.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else.

Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It’s an animalistic instinct for survival.

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.