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Quotes About Instincts

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Imgur is a data-driven company, and our community is our most important signal. But you can't perfectly plot humans neatly into a chart. It takes someone with instincts and empathy to truly understand the community and represent them in all of the company decisions.
~ Alan Schaaf
When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.
~ Angelina Jolie
Trust your instincts: If your instincts have always served you well, trust them and follow them.
~ Joy Mangano
Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.
~ Calvin Harris
I don't think I have ever taken any 'offbeat' advice. Actually, I don't know I take any advice very often. I trust my own instincts and seek out information so I can make fully informed decisions. That's what's worked for me.
~ Diane Hendricks
You can't please everyone, and you have to trust your instincts, and you have to do your work and throw yourself in there and trust your instincts, and just trust that you're doing a good job that I can be proud of as well.
~ Matt Ryan
Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.
~ Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.
~ Lucinda Williams
I'm not afraid of a big studio film; I trust my instincts. But for me, it's not really about box office. It's about looking back on your work and not having to apologize for it.
~ F. Gary Gray
When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.
~ John Lasseter
I found that the more I'd done Shakespeare, and the more I trusted my instincts and applied the same rules you would apply to any scene, the closer I got to how it's meant to be acted.
~ Tom Sturridge
I have always trusted my impulses. I have always believed that once I'm in the circumstances, whatever they may be, I will find the right way.
~ Kurt Eichenwald
By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
~ Tabatha Coffey
All-star lay downs are all about reading your opponents, trusting your instincts, and then making the right move.
~ Phil Hellmuth
We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
~ Tabatha Coffey
I don't think I am that hands-on. I'm much more of a believer in finding a great team of people and trusting them to follow their instincts. They work better when they feel they have freedom and they are trusted.
~ Anna Wintour
I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
You take the opportunities when you get them, and you try to see if there's any cues the opposition gives you, but more important is focusing on your own process, trusting your instincts, and being decisive.
~ Karen Bardsley
Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.
~ Jeff Daniels
One of the great things about journalism, at its best I mean, is its forensic, investigative truth seeking instincts.
~ Claire Fox
The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly.
~ Gordon Willis
Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.
~ Christina Aguilera
Not all instincts guide one to behaviours of survival. Life is mired in stupidity, after all, and the smarter the life, the stupider it can be.
~ Steven Erikson