I prepare to the point where instinct take over.
[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them this instinct to destroy mankind with all the deft precision of machines.
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.
A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up in our minds the knowledge of other lands and other institutions and other races, and have had enkindled afresh within us the instinct of a common humanity, and of the universal beneficence of the Creator.
Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.
Before you look to blame another, look within yourself, for at some point you have not listened to your own instincts.
It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.
I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.
I have a good instinct for what's real and what's not. I don't have to second-guess myself.
Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.
The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live.
What is commonly honored with the name of Friendship is no very profound or powerful instinct. Men do not, after all, love their Friends greatly. I do not often see the farmers made seers and wise to the verge of insanity by their Friendship for one another. They are not often transfigured and translated by love in each other's presence. I do not observe them purified, refined, and elevated by the love of a man.
Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.
Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.