Quotes About Instinct

Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and that can make a crucial difference to lots of writers.

I think that's just a natural instinct as an actor is that you want to just keep exploring humanity and finding different facets of it.

I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct.

I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a different approach to the character that makes sense as an actor.

You just wish you could lobotomize yourself and just do a thing that's really on instinct. There's always a certain self-consciousness. And you worry about that.

My instinct is to say it as I see it, being a little bit edgy and showing leadership on policy issues.

When it comes to fashion, follow your instinct.

Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love.

I follow my heart and my instinct about films and people.

Progress is hard to measure in any creative endeavor, I think. It's often a matter of instinct, of feeling your way through what works and what doesn't.

I don't think talent or an instinct for acting is something you can teach.

As an actor, the only thing you have is your instinct and your imagination.

I think, a lot of times, when you're a first-time mom, you just want to be so careful, and you overanalyze things sometimes. But I think your first instinct as a mother is always right.

As an entrepreneur, you can have an instinct, and your instinct is right, but your idea you're substantiating that into is wrong, and the world is not ready for it.

I know what it feels like to love and care about things, but I've never had that instinct to have kids.

I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.

The maternal instinct is in me.

I married young. I had an instinct that this man was going to really wear well, and he has. For me, this is what worked. I always admired Helmut because he was, A, very smart, B, very sure of himself and very, very funny, and so that combination of things.

I just follow my instinct.

When a son tells a dad to trust him, it goes against every instinct in his body to do so.

Everything in 'Satya' was by chance. It was a film which just started evolving by itself. I just went mostly by instinct and kept on improvising on location, and the film just got made itself.

As humans, our instinct is to be free. And any sort of restrictions don't help.

It is very easy to make athletes, and it is very difficult to make rugby players with that rugby instinct. I would like to think I have got a bit of rugby instinct and have become more of a rugby athlete along the way.

I don't really know how to build a career or what to do. But I have the instinct to keep doing different things so people can see different things.