Quotes About Instinct

Ive been making products for so long, I have a gut feel for what is right - what will work and what wont. I can tell instantly if its a hero or a zero.

All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

I actually try and work before my mind is telling me what to do.

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.

I'm probably one of the worst actors as far as preparation goes, because I actually don't prepare. I find it easier to read the script and whatever hits me in my stomach, like deep down, I just go with it. And the director kind of molds me whether to go right or left with it.

I work more with my stomach than my brain.

When the butterflies in my stomach, when those leave, then I know it's probably time to retire.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

Mind you, as a little boy, I always had other interests from most kids. I was not a boy who rubbed around baseball bats. I always had the storytelling instinct, even as a child. I was a very imaginative little boy.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

It often occurs to me that this is a strange way to make a living. But it's wonderful, too. There are many ways to read maturity, and I'm not fighting the instinct to simply enjoy that kind of nonsense. I love that someone would pay me to draw on somebody else's bottom.

As a global disrupter, Uber is no stranger to conflict, and its instinct has always been pugilistic.

And most people who claim to have killer instinct rarely do, because when you have that kind of power, you don't talk about it. You don't think about it. You just use it.

You don't wait to be told, you don't waver from your goal. When it's time to act, you act, instinctively and without hesitation. As you will read in these pages: Done. Next.

The whole magnetic thing about sex is you want the other person to want you. I mean, that's what separates us from the animals. That and haircuts.

Look, anything that has eyes all over its body should know better than to attack someone. It's like wearing armor made out of your own testicles.

Habit was stronger than emotion.

Failure isn't always durable. You can go back and you can look at it and go, 'Oh, that wasn't a failure. That was a key moment of my development that I needed to take, and I can trust my instinct. I really can'.

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, by Laurence Gonzales.