An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.
Human beings have an instinct for freedom.
It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.
the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.
Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.
How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.
Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over.
New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.
There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.
Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.
Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts.
The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.
Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.
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.