I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.
~By William Scott ~
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
~By Will Cuppy ~
Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.
~By Fred L. Turner ~
I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake.
~By Emeril Lagasse ~
The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.
~By Theda Bara ~
As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.
~By Kim Novak ~
On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.
~By David Duchovny ~
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
~By E. B. White ~
I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
~By Karl Lagerfeld ~
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
~By Katharine Fullerton Gerould ~
I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.
~By Lindsey Buckingham ~
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
~By Denis Leary ~
Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.
~By Taylor Dane ~
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
~By John Andrew Holmes ~
Instinct is untaught ability.
~By Alexander Bain ~
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
~By Evelyn Waugh ~
What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?
~By Morley Safer ~
I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.
~By Julie Delpy ~
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.
~By Manfred von Richthofen ~
How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.
~By Shirin Ebadi ~
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
~By Edmund Burke ~
The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.
~By John Engler ~
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
I'm not an instinctive actor.
~By John Thaw ~
Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
~By Steven Brust ~
And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.
~By Ayrton Senna ~
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
~By F. Murray Abraham ~
When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
~By John McCarthy ~
Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too.
~By Albert Finney ~
I rely on my instincts and intuition, and I feel it's so imperative for people to follow not the path but their path.
~By Emma Stone ~
I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
~By Ethel Waters ~
And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.
~By Ayrton Senna ~
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
~By Bill Brandt ~
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.
~By Hart Crane ~
I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
~By Gary Gygax ~
I live on my gut instinct.
~By Melanie Brown ~
Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
~By Jimmy Buffett ~
I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.
~By Julie Walters ~
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.
~By Sonya Levien ~
It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
~By David Leavitt ~
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.
~By Sue Grafton ~
Style is primarily a matter of instinct.
~By Bill Blass ~
Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off."
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.
~By Kit Williams ~
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
~By Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus ~
But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
~By Cheryl Tiegs ~
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
~By Dylan Moran ~
The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.
~By Roy Jenkins ~
For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
~By Billy Zane ~
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
~By Anais Nin ~
I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.
~By Richard Linklater ~
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
~By Albert Camus ~
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
~By Branford Marsalis ~
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
~By William Cowper ~
You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France. And when George Bush Jr. got in, my instincts told me it was time to go - I'd felt that we had grown above that, you know?
~By Tommy Chong ~
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.
~By Theodore Dreiser ~
I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.
~By Boz Scaggs ~
It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.
~By Paul Begala ~
Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.
~By Valentine de Saint-Point ~
Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
~By Henry Williamson ~
People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.
~By Phillip Noyce ~
But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk. It doesn't matter where or what it is, from the biggest to the most venomous.
~By Steve Irwin ~
Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.
~By Henry Bessemer ~
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
~By Golda Meir ~
My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!
~By Lindsay Lohan ~
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
~By Germaine Greer ~
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
~By Ben Hogan ~
Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.
~By Bette Howland ~
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
~By Henry R. Luce ~
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
Making movies is all about instinct.
~By Dino De Laurentiis ~
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
~By Herbert Read ~
I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.
~By Jeffrey Combs ~
You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
~By Hector Hugh Munro ~
I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Stick to your instincts.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.
~By Omar Epps ~
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
~By Will Cuppy ~
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
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