Quotes on Instinct

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

Author: Lynn Abbey

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.

Author: Bill Blass

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

Author: F. Bradley

I live on my gut instinct.

Author: Melanie Brown

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Author: Edmund Burke

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

Author: Jennifer Capriati

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

Author: William Cowper

I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here.

Author: Deborah Cox

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Author: Charles Darwin

Reason is the servant of instinct.

Author: Clarence Day

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Author: Edgar Fiedler

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Author: Delphine Girardin

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

Author: Stone Gossard

Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.

Author: Bette Howland

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

Author: Muhammed Iqbal

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Author: Karl Lagerfeld

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.

Author: David Leavitt

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

Author: Robert Ley

Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.

Author: Adrian Lyne

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Author: Thomas Mann

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.

Author: Branford Marsalis

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

Author: Henri Matisse

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

Author: John McCarthy

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

Author: Laurence Olivier

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Author: Ovid

Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning.

Author: Simon Pegg

I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!

Author: Camille Pissarro

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

Author: Ezra Pound

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

Author: Dorothy Thompson

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.

Author: Henry Winkler

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

Author: Slavoj Zizek

People's intentions may be good, but their perspectives may be limited; always trust your own instincts.

Author: Maya Angelou