Quotes About Instinct

I didn't study; I live.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It's not an intellectual thing. It's almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

I never went to school to study acting, so I'm doing this purely on feeling, and I give it my all.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

It just comes out of my subconscious. If you asked me to draw you a doodle, I couldn't do it.

Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.

I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it.

I followed my gut and my subconscious told me the kind of music I wanted to create. But it wasn't easy.

I learned over the years to trust that the subconscious is going to provide guidance.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

Fedor has great killer instinct, he's tough, he's strong. If I fought him I'd try to catch him in a submission, but I don't know if Fedor can be beaten.

In June 1992, I discovered a lump in my breast. A subsequent mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy proved negative. But my instinct said it still didn't feel right, so I had a lumpectomy. I then got the news that it was cancer.

I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them.

Dance is a tough life (and a tougher way to make a living). Choreography is even more brutal because there is no way to carry our history forward. Our creations disappear the moment we finish performing them. It's tough to preserve a legacy, create a history for yourself and others. But I put all that aside and pursued my gut instinct anyway. I became my own rebellion. Going with your head makes it arbitrary. Going with your gut means you have no choice.

I became my own rebellion. Going with your head makes it arbitrary. Going with your gut means you have no choice. It's inevitable, which is why I have no regrets.

The Only place to love a man or fight a man is below the belt

En employant des moyens extrêmes, il est effectivement possible de détruire le contrat social jusqu'à la base, et d'obtenir de la part des hommes des réactions purement animales.

After years of marriage, I have learned one thing: Trust a woman's intuition before a man's undeniable logic.

An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.

Some nights, I am more wolf than woman, those nights, a sip of the moon is all I need to keep me whole.