Quotes About Instinct

I'd quit ballet school, which I thought was going to be my path, but my gut instinct told me to do something different.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

You can teach defensive wizardry, but you need the talent to go with it. You have to be born with that natural defensive radar.

Beautiful things can happen when you act intuitively and instinctively in a moment of anxiety and do something radical.

I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.

Sex is the gateway to life.

I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary. I like to think if something scares me, then there's a very good chance an audience will feel the same way.

My fight-or-flight mechanism... had served me well in Gaza, in Afghanistan, and all the places I'd been.

I was, for some reason, born knowing how to get married.

I grew up in the ghetto, and the thing is when there were problems, I knew when to get away.

When you're a young boy, you don't think; you just go for it. When you have more experience, you have to play more with your head.

I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.

Look, I follow my heart. That's the only thing I know how to do. I look at the work, I look for opportunities, and when I feel it's right, I go for it.

You're a good example of why some animals eat their young.

I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.

Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.

When it came to gunfire Jumper didn't have any more sense than a red ant in a hot skillet.

First mark of the self-preservative instinct of the great psychologist: he never seeks himself, he has no eyes for himself, no interest or curiosity in himself

The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.