Quotes About Instinct

It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.

There's something really interesting about how human beings just want to see animals tear each other apart, maybe because we can't do it.

As mothers, women are often the first to know when the food they feed their children is tainted with pollutants or impurities, because they can see it in the tears of their children and hear it in their babies' cries.

Whether it's a double take or a spit take or an extra-long pause before a reaction or a line, I try to be as cognizant as possible about the technical end of it. So I think the physical stuff works easier for me than maybe for others who are more just going on instinct.

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.

Technical co-founders are great at envisioning where the company's going from a strategic standpoint. They have what I call the 'gut-feel' of building out their business.

Finding where to put the camera is probably the most important thing you have to learn when you're a young director, and it's something that's a mixture of instinct and technique.

People think catching a football one-handed is a technique, but it's more a reaction. Because you really don't think about it when you're doing it. You just do it. I couldn't sit there and try to teach someone how to catch a one-handed football.

The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.

We're interested in things that have big teeth, and you can see the evolutionary value of that, and you can also see the practical consequences by watching 'Animal Planet.' You notice they make very few programs about gerbils. It's mostly about things that have big teeth.

There's a part in a woman's soul, God has given it to every woman, and it's the part where you know whether he's telling the truth or not. Women see red flags.

I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.

I always do as my heart tells me.

My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn't a good idea.

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.

I think you'll always be able to do what your ear tells you.

I think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do.

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.

I just hope that more women realize that if your gut tells you you're doing a good job, you're doing a good job.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

I do whatever my heart tells me to do.

It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.