God gave women instinct and womanliness. Utilized appropriately, the combo effortlessly disorders the mind of any man I've ever met.
In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.
Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?
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.
In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution, or throwing herself from a bridge, then surely the prostitute, who has shown the most tenacious instinct for self-preservation, should be considered stronger and saner than her frailer and no longer living sisters. One couldn't have it both ways, he'd pointed out: if women are seduced and abandoned they're supposed to go mad, but if they survive, and seduce in their turn, then they were mad to begin with.
My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.
This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.
When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.
Hillary Clinton's bad instincts and her bad judgment, something pointed out by Bernie Sanders, are what caused so many of the disasters unfolding today.
If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.
I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.
My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.
Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.
Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself without love, without pleasure.
It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.
But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.
When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.