Quotes About Instinct

I've just been playing football for a long time. I've been playing football since I was a little kid, so it's just some natural blessings that God has blessed me with to get to the ball and understand what I've been doing over the years.

I can tell by body language who wants a shot and who's going to make it and who's going to take a bad shot.

I always had a musical bone, I guess if you will.

I feel it in my bones that if I had a kid, I would not either continue to write or have written the book I have done. So it's just me and the dog. I've always gotten along better with animals than I have with children, anyway.

Mathematicians are born, not made.

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

I boxed a lot as a kid, so it's something that comes second nature to me.

I think more from my heart. My brains don't work as much.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

When a play breaks down, yeah, I've been blessed with the ability to make plays.

I don't remember ever not singing. It's just as natural as breathing for me.

Michael did it all. I am telling you that he is the most brilliant father. Almost before the baby needed something, he knew what it was.

You can tell when you look at someone and think 'he's on the brink of fainting' or that certainly something's not right.

Unfortunately, being a woman in society means that sometimes you have to sort of quell what is instinctually broad and magnificent and magical about you.

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.

Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.

That scene in 'The Purge' where my kids, Mary's kids, are in danger was really crazy for me, because I suddenly... I have my methods as an actor, so I went to the place of 'If somebody came near my children, with bad intent?'

I think as an action director; it comes kind of naturally to me to a certain extent, because I've done so much action myself - as my MRIs would suggest!

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.

I knew there was something about 'Sun Medallion,' in particular, because I just had to record it the second I wrote it.

Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.

Nature hates calculators.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.