Top 232 Instincts Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Instincts Quotes from famous people such as Lindsey Buckingham, Matthew Scully, Omar Epps, Henry Villard, Clint Eastwood, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instin

I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.
Lindsey Buckingham
I have no doubt that President George W. Bush – a man, in my experience, of extremely kind and generous instincts, and back in Austin even a rescuer of stray animals – would be appalled by the conditions of a typical American factory farm or packing plant.
Matthew Scully
A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.
Omar Epps
There was nothing in all Douglas’s powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln’s speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.
Henry Villard
I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.
Clint Eastwood
Ultimately, you have to write what’s coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.
Jonathan Tropper
I go by my instincts. It’s whatever I feel in the scene in the moment.
Millie Bobby Brown
‘Stimela’ is the very first video I directed. I wanted it to be an emotional visual art piece, displaying humans as free, powerful animals. We are all running from something or searching for something; our instincts have been ignored.
Wynter Gordon
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
Buildings like Penn Station attract our protective instincts not only because of their beauty but because we fear what will come to replace them.
Roger Scruton
I’ve taken a lot of risks through the years, but I always followed my instincts and always explored new opportunities. The biggest reward has been having an idea and being able to make it a reality. My passions always lead the way – travel and adventure, fitness, art, and home.
Cynthia Rowley
Trust your instincts, and the best way to trust them is to practice them.
Vincent Rodriguez III
If you’re presented with choices that steer you toward your worst instincts, that’s what you’ll choose. If I’m presented with Snickers bars, I won’t necessarily seek out kale.
Franklin Foer
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Howard Scott
When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices.
Martha Beck
If you are a certain kind of white conservative, especially a white male conservative, then Roger Ailes was a hero. He constructed a world in which your core beliefs and your gut instincts were, and still are, constantly validated.
Joy Reid
Franklin Roosevelt didn’t poll, because he had great political instincts. Now we have polls; we don’t need instincts. But is that a change in principle? Is it a change in principle that we use a Xerox instead of carbon paper? It’s of the same order of magnitude.
Dick Morris
My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.
Christopher Buckley
James Corden is a rare entertainment force who combines irresistible charm, warmth, and originality with a diverse range of creative instincts and performance talent.
Nina Tassler
Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.
Andrew O’Hagan
Actually I’ve never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.
Nancy McKeon
I’m so much better off when I trust my instincts. But they’re not perfect.
Phil Hellmuth
For me, I try and be authentic in my choices and follow my instincts, and I think it’s a valuable message for women in today’s society to learn to love yourself.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Trust your instincts: If your instincts have always served you well, trust them and follow them.
Joy Mangano
I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.
Joan Cusack
When I get logical, and I don’t trust my instincts – that’s when I get in trouble.
Angelina Jolie
Follow your instincts and do not let other people’s opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.
Sarah Jessica Parker
I need to figure men out. I’ve been seeing men that either remind me of my mother or remind me of my father. I either end up caretaking or being abandoned so I’ve had enough of my romantic instincts. I need to date away from type.
Daisy Lowe
Intelligent decisions may fail you but one’s instincts cannot.
Vijay Antony
Never do anything that you don’t want to do. Listen to your instincts and follow it.
Vanna White
It would be wrong to plan too much ahead of a match. You’ve got to go with the flow, go with your instincts.
Michael Clarke
There is no single voice in fandom; there is a multitud

There is no single voice in fandom; there is a multitude of voices, so you listen to them all because there are some good ideas coming from everywhere, but at the end of the day, we have to use our own instincts as a guide.
Anthony Russo
I just used to back my instincts and go with the flow. Lately, I’ve realised that once you play at the highest level you’ve got to take that maturity to another stage.
Shreyas Iyer
I won’t have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can’t see being competitive in sports any more.
Michael Jordan
Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the time it comes out where we started.
Alan Patricof
Honestly, in life you should take situations day by day. You never know what comes your way. I just like to go along with my instincts and be a part of the kind of work I like.
Vaani Kapoor
I’m going to trust my instincts when something’s wrong.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
It’s not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody’s an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton’s an actor, which is kind of scary. But if you want to honor your craft and yourself, strive for the nobler instincts.
Patti LuPone
I have a weird sense sometimes of what’s going to happen before it happens, and I kind of live by that, which is how my instincts operate, I suppose.
Don McLean
Dyslexia lends itself to original thinking, not rote formulas, because you can’t do the formulas – you think up your own method based on intuition and instincts. Creativity is trial and error, trying to figure out a way to do something emotionally and intuitively.
Philip Schultz
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.
Trevor Nunn
Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don’t transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence – as in punishment and deterrence – is needed to rein in our worst instincts.
Paul Bloom
As an entrepreneur, the latitude of failure and of success is directly correlated to people. I am growing more and more attentive to my first instincts, even if I can’t justify them, as they apply to people.
Caroline Ghosn
When you’re working with someone new, it takes a second to understand their instincts and range. It’s not really conscious.
Aaron Dessner
I Instagram and tweet a lot about my dog. I think he is one of the most interesting things about my life right now. All my motherly instincts go toward this dog. I love the dog.
Alexandra Daddario
As hackneyed and cliche as it sounds, follow your heart. We are all given intuition and instincts, and sometimes it is hard to follow those instincts with the fears and pressures that surround us – but you have to do it.
Michael Feinstein
She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She’ll rue the day.
David O. Selznick
I wasn’t popular in the home office because I wasn’t chicken. I’m just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
Gary Gygax
I do rely on my instincts a lot and my imagination.
Dennis Skinner
I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.
Boz Scaggs
I’m not one that listens to a whole lot of advice… I go with my gut instincts.
Eddie Rabbitt
I love going to horror movies – especially when they are fun. I think that they get you in touch with sort of these primal instincts that we all have in the relative safety of the theater.
Drew Goddard
Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business – sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
Hamdi Ulukaya
As an actor, you can think your way out of a lot of good things sometimes. I trust my instincts as an actor, and I trust the instincts of the creators, so it’s a good combination.
Rocky Carroll
I am very strongly paternal. My paternal instincts need to be acted upon. My love needs a release. I love everyone. I don’t express my love enough, but the love within me needs a platform as a parent.
Karan Johar
If anyone tells you that you’re too old to be an entrepreneur or that you have the wrong background, don’t listen to them. Go with your gut instincts and pursue your passions.
Vivek Wadhwa
I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors fully trust that the writers will write amazing episodes, and the writers trust that the actors will follow their instincts with the characters.
John Krasinski