Instinct Quotes - Page 9

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

You have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day.

One thing I have learned is that I should trust my 'gut' instincts. Ultimately, only we know what is best for us.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.

I live on my gut instinct.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.

My gut and intuition told me it wasn't time to do this.

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

Trust your first instinct.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

I need to trust myself and go where my instincts tell me, and to be as wild and free as possible in my creative decisions.

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along.

If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

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.