Quotes About Instinct

I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.

Your natural decisions are the decisions that are going to be good.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good.

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

I never listen to what people tell me and I can't read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it's wrong. If I feel good, it's right.

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

I have a good sense of direction.

I knew 'Like Crazy' would be good, I just knew it, and that's why I fought so hard to be on it.

I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.

Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.

If you don't feel good about something, you don't shake it off easily.

Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.

Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.

When in doubt, follow the senses of beasts.