Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.
The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.
I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.
I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't.
If you take someone's thoughts and feelings away, bit by bit, consistantly, they then have nothing left except some gritty, gnawing, shitty little instinct, down there, somewhere, worming around in the gut, but so far down, so hidden, it's impossible to find.
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
I'm not worried about what's in fashion, what's not in fashion, what are the colors of the season. I go with my gut instinct because every time I haven't it's been a mistake.
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.
When you don’t become fixated on winning the prize or appearing successful, and instead pursue your passions, then you will discover the fulfillment that comes from living by instinct.
When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.
You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.
If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting
The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.
A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.
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.
I've always kind of done exactly what my instincts said.