I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.
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.
I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.
Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression.
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.
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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.
A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.
There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.
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.
Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.
I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not stopping until you finish. I love the immediacy of trusting your instincts.
Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.
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.
Every time Jimmy Scott sings, it's the same but slightly different. I don't know how he does that or where he gets that from. I think it's instinct. Nothing he does is by chance; he's in complete control of what he's doing. He's just beautiful and unique.
Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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.
I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that.
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.
Amateur wrestling, you can go by instinct. Pro wrestling, you have to memorize, and you have to go by what moves you said you were going to do. Sometimes you have to feel the crowd and do the moves at the right time and know the timing and tell a good story.
I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.
We buy and sell goods. We buy low and sell higher - that's what we all do to make a profit. But I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.
Transcendental Meditation, for me, has been a way of turning down the outside racket and turning up the bandwidth of instinct, intuition, concentration, attention. On the light ends, it's a power nap. On the strong ends, it's a giant battery, and that battery doesn't run out.
Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.
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.
Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning.
I follow my heart and my instinct about films and people.
I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.
