instinct quotes

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

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

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It’s not an intellectual thing. It’s almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

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

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.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.