It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle.

Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.

I have a confidence because my research shows that I should just really trust my instincts.

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

I have a good instinct for what's real and what's not. I don't have to second-guess myself.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

What better way to discover the unknown than to follow your instincts instead of your plans.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.

I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't.

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It’s an animalistic instinct for survival.

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.

Why should a manufacturer bet his money, perhaps the future of his company, on your instinct?

I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way. ~Train Heartnet

I am, by instinct, wary of revolutions. The gathering of the masses fills me with trepidation.

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

I’m adding ‘canine’ to my searches,” I said. “And ‘instinct.’” “Whatever. I’m adding ‘lunatic.

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.

If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.

I believe in following your instincts with the people that you like and who you like to be with.

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

The biggest thing I've learned is to listen to my own gut. I have learned to trust my instincts.

Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.

Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.

We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct.

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

My music is born from instinct. I react to situations a script may provide while creating a song.

You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts.

I am a perfect case study for the transition from no maternal instinct to the love of motherhood.

It's difficult to articulate how I know it's the right actor, but I do. It's instinct. Intuition.

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

The only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. It was only really one time.

'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

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

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

To survive in a creative economy, you need basic instinct! You have to know and smell your viewer.

Some plays just come out of me, just on instincts. I'll make a play and wonder, How did I do that?

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