Quotes About Instinct

Intuition is truth.

At the end of the day, I think people just need to start listening to their hearts and their gut feelings and their dreams, because that's what I did.

People usually think with their brain or go with their heart, but a good place to start is if you have a gut feeling.

Having my feet be as good as I want them to be can get me out of a lot of problems when I'm in the pocket and stuff starts to break down. There's rarely ever a perfect pocket.

I've said many times that I'm not one of those people who check statistics, follows history, and says, 'If I do this, what will happen.'

Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.

Men have to stay strong. 'They fight, it's normal. Females don't have that instinct.

Ever since I was little, I always played point guard. All throughout high school, junior high. I hit a couple growth spurts and the guard thing just always stayed with me. It just comes natural.

Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.

You gotta go with your gut. It will never steer you wrong.

The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.

I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.

When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

When we act on our spontaneous judgment, we are almost always better off.

For the rest of the earth's organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else.

Optimism has always been an undeclared policy of human culture—one that grew out of our animal instincts to survive and reproduce—rather than an articulated body of thought.

might just as well ask how you knew how to do the things you did.

For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence.

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

Love of life is the primal impulse.