Instinct Quotes (512 Quotes)

Capt. Dan just had the instinct and nose to catch the bad guy.

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

As unrefined and basic as an animal's emotional equipment may be, it is not insensitive to freedom. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

I've got the killer instinct. I'm looking for the kill shot. He's more like just making the tackle.

It's regrettable what happened, but it's remarkable that the officer survived this encounter. It was equal measures of instinct, training and street survival skills.

You've got to have killer instinct. For the first time all year, we did that. You can't trade baskets, especially at this time because that's when you get beat.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.

Miss Morstan and I stood together, and her hand was in mine. A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two who had never seen each other before that day, between whom no word or even look of affection had ever passed, and yet now in an hour of trouble our hands instinctively sought for each other. I have marvelled at it since, but at the time it seemed the most natural thing that I should go out to her so, and, as she has often told me, there was in her also the instinct to turn to me for comfort and protection. So we stood hand in hand, like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us.

I saw Jason coming off the edge and it was just instinct, trying to make a move and make him miss. And I did that. I thought he fell. I was running. I slowed down a little bit and then I felt somebody clip my feet and it was Jason Taylor.

I think as far as linebackers are concerned, if you can run and make plays and if you have an instinct to be around the ball, you'll succeed (in the Eagles' system). This defense is in your face, it puts pressure on the offense and it dictates. We don't read and react. We dictate to the offense what we want to do and make them make a decision.

The great lie about immortality destroys every kind of reason, every kind of naturalness in the instincts.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

The moderate instinct is that the country is in crisis, and we have to find some degree of reconciliation and unity in the interests of the nation.

. . . every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other.... Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

Mike believes in us. He told me to trust my first instinct.

We grew up today. We took a stride in the right direction. That's something we'd been missing - that attitude, that killer instinct, that swagger and that confidence that you need to win games this time of year.

Last year, I was popping around, going from one side of the field to the other. It's a little easier to just concentrate on one thing. ... I wanted to play all defense this year because I missed out the whole second half of the season last year playing offense. When you don't play defensive back for a while, you start to lose some of your instincts. Well, not instincts, but you start to second-guess yourself. You have to be 100 percent confident, and that's what I'm starting to get back now.

It'll be a hard adjustment. I've been trying to reach a point where these guys have a killer instinct.

I think great running backs have a tendency to run by instinct, run by feel,

Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too.

She does that all the time. I'll leave the room and the subject will change and she may talk more than she should or make offers. But that's OK. It's her business, and that's what's exciting about Gretchen. Her two biggest assets are her spontaneity and her instincts.

People don't realize animals have such strong maternal instincts.

One of the most important things we can do is trust our instincts.

Hodge, who has been working in the middle, has the best instincts. Out of the entire group, he probably gets it the fastest, ... He understands, 'This is the call, this is the coverage, this is the situation.' He's got a good feel for things. In a football sense, he's probably the most advanced.

So, I work on instinct and start probing with remarks and I have an indication of what the person is like before they even open their mouth.

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.

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.

Prize-fighting is still accepted as a display worthy of a civilized people despite the fact that all those connected with it are fully aware it caters to the latent sadistic instincts.

I had a gut instinct, ... We thought we were clearly doing the right thing, and it was time and we needed a new generation of leaders.

My instinct was to go for it, ... But then reality set in and I was like, What the heck am I doing

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

The biggest improvement from last year was his footwork. And he has such great instincts. He knows where he should be at all times on the court.

Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision.

He has the ability to be one of the best players we've ever had (at CFCC). He's as strong as any freshman we've had and he has good instincts. He's a complete baseball player.

The varsity gave a very lackluster performance coming off a great win against Gideon Friday night. We need to develop a killer instinct. We have known that all year, yet we still cannot get up for all of our games, just some of them.

I am learning to trust my instincts, rather than struggle too hard with reason ... because reason can get buried in misinformation, or too much information and it can lack the miracle of love.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

He can go on his own. I think of all the steals he has this season, I've given him the sign to steal once. He just basically has good baseball instinct. I have no problem with anything he does.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

Literature. . . is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

He is very much in the mix. He's really improved every year he has been here. His mobility is better. He's stronger and he has always had great offensive instincts. You combine that with the confidence level he has now, he has played extremely well. He will be a guy who is given serious consideration.

It was just instinct. We were down and I couldn't let us lose it.

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.