I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn’t going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
Fear is always there; it’s a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.
Appreciation has become my destiny in life. Perhaps it’s the instinct of a polar bear enjoying hibernation in the vast snows.
In Punjabi film industry I am given full freedom to change the lines according to the situation. Directors believe in my gut instinct.
The truth is that both groups want to be noticed. Yet we view a man’s desire for attention as a natural instinct; with a woman, we label her a narcissist.
I was worried – I wasn’t sure I had the maternal instinct. But the minute my son came out, he was my favorite person on earth. I was crazily in tune with him, and I knew we were going to be fine.
As a global disrupter, Uber is no stranger to conflict, and its instinct has always been pugilistic.
When the things in front of you in life reveal how messed up the system is, you lose faith in the system pretty quickly. You develop a contrarian attitude. Your instinct is to disagree with the status quo and then, if you can, to try and shake it up.
I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and not to be the plaything of power and might – which I now know, of course, to be an absolute nonsense. International law should be spelled l-o-r-e.
I find that whoever you are as a person is how you’re gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.
I think, the first time I played Iago at the Public Theater, I realized I had a – much to my chagrin – I realized I had an instinct for these conflicted characters, for these torn characters, for these characters who could be described as evil. I wouldn’t describe them that way.
Often I used my gut instinct to ask the questions and get the answers I thought the audience wanted to hear. Sometimes the interviewees said things that surprised even them.
As a working musician, your first instinct is to try and do your job. It wasn’t always my aspiration to sing; I just wanted to be a great working musician. But then Flying Lotus suggested I try, and nothing has ever been the same since.
I have to follow my instinct and intuition and curiosity.
I have an innate instinct for knowing what’s going to work.
We are fighting a Labour Party whose avowed enemy is capitalist bosses, whose instinct is to see income as a common pool resource, and whose leading figures find profit morally repugnant.
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
I don’t think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.
Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, ‘animalistic’ instinct.
My first love and my first instinct are acting.
The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.
The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness go down, also.
I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.
Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
I’m not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I’m more of a city person.
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
It’s instinct: Men love to feel like they take care of you. Knowing you feel protected makes his ego grow two sizes bigger.
I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here.
Fortunately for me, it’s my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we don’t have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and that can make a crucial difference to lots of writers.
To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
To be honest, my first instinct when I heard about the ‘Greendale’ project was that it was a licensing thing. As I learned more about the project, I saw how pure it was.
I think that the instinct that people have when they see a beautifully produced web series is that they think it must have been made for television and they just chopped it up and put it online.
It’s great that we have commercial filmmakers who make family films and understand the aesthetics well, taking this route. They know how to bring the emotions out there without being vulgar. After all, it’s a natural instinct.
Getting up in front of the toughest crowds, you know, playing pubs in South Armagh – where people didn’t necessarily even know what stand-up comedy was – you had to force yourself to do it. It went against every instinct in your body, but you did it anyway.
I mixed with a lot of peasants, workers, artists and writers, all deprived of work. That’s when I understood human beings have an instinct toward knowledge.
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Style is primarily a matter of instinct.
I had a very strong background in journalism, so it’s my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
I am a perfect case study for the transition from no maternal instinct to the love of motherhood.
I know what it feels like to love and care about things, but I’ve never had that instinct to have kids.
Every GM will tell you it’s an instinct. It’s an instinct to be patient, to react, or act, or not to do anything at all. It just comes. What I can say is you must have a plan and a goal and a way to do things. At the end of the day, it’s an instinct. Sometimes it’s good. Sometimes it’s bad.
You needn’t tell me that a man who doesn’t love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He’s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I’d try to show them they didn’t need anger. They didn’t need all that killing instinct they’d read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport.
I feel like girls should dress down a little bit on the holidays, even though the instinct is to get really dressed up.
I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.
One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off of instinct, but sometimes that is not reliable. When you’re not feeling it, what do you do? So, going to grad school was about getting the tools to just use my instrument to the best of my ability.
