Quotes About Instinct

And I think every once in a while someone comes along who is a little more primitive than the rest of us, a little closer to our beginnings, a little more in touch with the stuff we're made of.

Ignore everything you think you know and listen only to your heart, without doubting anything.

I ask you to ignore everything you think you know and to listen only to your heart, without doubting anything. Can you do that?

She was her own kind of dreamer, a blind mathematician skating along the thin surface of life, believing in the saving power of logic, reason, and information, overlooking the whole murky expanse of feeling and animal instinct that was the real driver of human behavior, the real author of history.

She was her own kind of dreamer, a blind mathematician skating along the thin surface of life, believing in the saving power of logic, reason, and information, overlooking the whole murky expanse of feeling and animal instinct that was the real driver of human behavior, the real author of history. Since

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.

I might have said no, I might have just stayed put. But something's telling me to push past the barrier of my life

He was blind to self-constraints, like an animal incapable of perceiving certain colors.

Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision.

When it comes to my work, I'm fearless. I go with my gut.

I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

Authenticity is what I've always gone after in my work, and I understand what feels emotionally right, instinctively. Working with actors has just come with experience.

A lion is born knowing how to hunt, but has to learn how to hunt well.

The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate--it's either in their DNA or it's not.

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

I think we all want to find the love of our life and live our fantasies. What art student hasn't used his art to get girls? What journalists or actors haven't used their craft as well? It's a very human instinct to pursue.

When I was a student and rushing to finish a project, my gut instinct was usually to keep adding all kinds of features. It's a way of papering over the fact that you haven't quite nailed your concept yet.

I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

I never studied business. It's either in your DNA, or it isn't.

I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here.