Quotes About Instincts

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Trust your instincts. Follow your heart.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor's instincts, since after all, it's the actors playing the character.

The British boy suffers the greatest restraint during the period when the call of nature, the instincts of play and adventure, are most urgent. Naturally, he looks eagerly forward to the time of escape, which he fondly imagines will be when his boyhood is over and he is free of masters.

But in the investment arena, our social instincts are poison.

Wolves hate farewells,...

In the end, it is not the power of the mind nor the strengths of the body but the instincts of the human heart that save the world. It is the simple human capacity for mercy that finally allows evil to be overthrown.

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.

I like to do things that frighten me. When I'm afraid, I understand more things. I want the feeling... All my instincts cry out against it, every morning anew. Then I say, 'I should do it. If I don't do it, no one will do it for me.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

Changing the way a man thought could be done by teaching him. Altering the way he reacted without thought meant tampering with his instincts.

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.

You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.

Take people's advice and guidance in the beginning, but always follow your instincts first

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.

There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.

The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.