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Quotes About Instinct

I wouldn't hunt a person down for food. But if he were already dead.
~ Yasmine Bleeth
Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport.
~ Richard Lerner
If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting.
~ Paul Johnson
Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.
~ Carl Sagan
Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines.
~ William Saroyan
There was something delightfully intimate about the relationship between predator and prey.
~ Nenia Campbell, Horrorscape
Perfume opens endless horizons. It appeals both to the senses and to the imagination. Like an enchantment, it works on an instinctive level and at the same time is extremely subtle.
~ Nino Cerruti
I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.
~ Christopher Lee
Your first thought is often the best one. You know, the one that felt too weird or silly or stupid. Trust your imagination - it knows what it's doing.
~ Karin Tidbeck
I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.
~ William Shakespeare
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
~ Alexander Pushkin
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.
~ Sigmund Freud
Your mind may not know what to do today, but your heart does. Follow your heart.
~ Joe Vitale
Underneath it all, we are wild and we know it.
~ Reginald Ray
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
~ D.H. Lawrence
All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.
~ Cathy Guisewite
follow your heart! (sppotedleafs motto)
~ Erin Hunter, Into the Wild
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
~ H. L. Mencken
I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime
~ Lisa Kudrow
There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.
~ Patrick Swayze
Hunches are not to be sneezed at.
~ Richard Nelson Bolles
Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ?
~ Jim Nollman