I've always kind of done exactly what my instincts said.
When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.
It was very important to me to choose a director like Gary [Ross], whose instincts come from character, who's a storyteller, and who puts characters first.
In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.
Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.
Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else.
You know your gut instincts are spot on about a person when you can also detect a water source in the soil beneath them.
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.
Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.
I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
I have a confidence because my research shows that I should just really trust my instincts.
We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts.
Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.
A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation need not be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another by innumerable ties, into a strong, tense, and elastic organisation.
Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.
To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.
Never to be frightened of taking risks and always follow your instincts!
It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.
Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts.