Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.
The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.
I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.
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.
When you know something is wrong for you, you have to make difficult decisions and trust your instincts.
Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.
Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.
I don't know why it is, but I do like dancing in the extreme situations. I like that noise, I like that intensity. For some reason, it's what I respond to in terms of my taste and of my instincts.
I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.
My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, "No, Mummy, you can't wear that. " She's very good. I do trust her instinct.
Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient passage through our hapless minds; that weave a pattern of fatality others will see before we do. Myth is distinctively human or sublime higher-order instinct, the "reason" in culture that reason knows not of.
Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away.
Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.
My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.
I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.