Quotes About Instinct

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

Taste may change, but inclination never.

We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.

Every time I put out music and it goes well, it's a confirmation of your taste and your gut.

A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.

I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.

You can be taught so much, but the sense of anticipation cannot be taught.

You need to have that killer instinct. It can't be taught. Where does it come from? A couple slaps. A couple things you had denied to you.

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.

They teach you some things, but football is instinct sometimes. You just get the ball, and sometimes you dribble past three players and pass it; other times, you can shoot from far away. It's just instinct. If you feel something, just do it. I am free to do that.

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

I never had a teacher, and I never had lessons, other than hard Nature itself.

I think good actors are born with a kind of native gift. When you study too much with an acting teacher, that gets taken away. You lose your sense of spontaneity.

When I jumped in a go-kart at three or four, with my friends, I was super fast without anyone really teaching me.

Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.

When I'm out there on the mound, I'm fighting for my teammates, fighting for the ability to stay in the game for a long time. It's war. I see the hitter - I think about what I want to do, but it's a very quick process. Then I attack. It's almost primal.

Over the years, I've had teammates who decided to hang it up and I would ask them how they knew when it was time to walk away. The answer was almost always the same: You just know.

When I've watched teams that play with five at the back and wing-backs, I've looked at their starting positions and positions out of possession because that comes a little bit more unnaturally to me.

You can't help the way you feel.

Unable to fight it any longer, she jumped up and made for the door, not even bothering with the beside lamp. Smart. Miranda. Real smart.