Quotes About Instinct

Everybody wants a solution on how to help their dogs, but we can't really see the problem until we reconnect ourselves to our instinctual self.

Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.

Real people do what they want...not what they can.

At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.

All I look for is good quality stuff. Whatever I read, if I like it, then I want to do it. It's as simple as that. I don't have a master plan of, "I should do this genre, and then this."

Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

As an actor, I feel like I'm somebody who, when somebody gives me a mark, I don't want to hit it. I don't like that. But then, without even knowing it, I just hit it.

I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by.

It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we really want to be is killers.

My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'

The heart wants what the heart wants

When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

If you feel like eating, eat. Let your body tell you what it wants.

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.

I feel something, I do it. I want something, I take it.

You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you

Being pregnant, makes me want to do the wildest things

He found a stuffed animal, a fluffy wolf with bright blue eyes, and was immediately drawn to it. "I want to get this for her. It is telling me it needs to go home with us." Francesca laughed at him.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.