Your instinct when someone is busy is to give them the least amount of work so that they can do it.
Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions. For example, no scientist and very few psychoanalysts still embrace Freud’s death instinct.
I just don’t have that natural instinct to be able to let my guard down and start speaking to people. I never have – I’ve always been a bit socially awkward, even with people I’ve known for a long time.
I used to cover the environment, and it does have the advantage of the fact that when you call people up and ask them questions, their first instinct is not to lie to you.
Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.
The husband – by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition – regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.
I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word ‘tone,’ which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.
Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don’t prepare for anything… we only work on instinct.
I kind of feel like… I have a slower instinct than most live-action directors, but I have more patience.
Usually, when a DB is trying to catch up to you, he’ll run to your wake because his natural instinct is to trail you so you don’t get too much separation.
When it comes to fashion, follow your instinct.
They teach you some things, but football is instinct sometimes. You just get the ball, and sometimes you dribble past three players and pass it; other times, you can shoot from far away. It’s just instinct. If you feel something, just do it. I am free to do that.
I’d love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I’d love to direct. One day. I’m learning a lot on the set of ‘The Good Wife.’
I’ve made a career of being a contrarian. If I’m going to work with Tom Cruise, it’s my instinct to be like, ‘Well, I’m going to do the anti-Tom Cruise movie.’
Everybody knows how to throw a punch. Not correctly – he or she might not know how to turn the wrist or know what part of the hand to hit with. But humans instinctively know to fight, whether they bite or claw or pull hair. It’s an instinct.
I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting.
I have never been able to go against my instinct.
Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.
Politicians have an acutely honed instinct for self-preservation.
The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.
I’ve come to realise I work so much better when I’m going by instinct.
Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible.
It’s interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I’m much more interested in young people now.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Madonna is her own Hollywood studio – a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.
Comedy will always be central to what I do, it’s just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
I think we all want to find the love of our life and live our fantasies. What art student hasn’t used his art to get girls? What journalists or actors haven’t used their craft as well? It’s a very human instinct to pursue.
The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do.
The natural instinct is to join in the chorus of conflict, to make your voice louder, your point bigger, and your position stronger. But we will not solve the significant and real problems our country faces if we cannot bring ourselves to embrace a mindset of grace.
You can only go by the instinct that you have.
I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.
Showrunning is an arrogant job. You have to be arrogant and hold yourself strong in order for people to hear you. Confidence partners with arrogance. The only person you have to trust is yourself. The only instinct you can trust is your own.
Everything I have is natural. I do everything by instinct. I am not like the ‘gringos,’ with all of their apparatus.
Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It’s easier, and we’re usually right! But it rarely works.
The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.
Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I’d rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
I have a motherly instinct and I’m always trying to give therapy.
I rely on myself very much. I just think that you have an instinct and you go with it. Especially when it comes to deal-making and buying things.
You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.
I come at it from a different angle of attack with each novel, searching for the technological texture the story demands. There isn’t a recipe; it’s more of an instinct.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.
I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on – the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.
My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
If I try to be fast then I’m no good, so it’s better just to shut everything off and let instinct take over.
Everything I do in life is framed through the view of a businessman. That’s my instinct. If I go into a pharmacy to buy shaving cream, then I’m going to look for the best deal on shaving cream.
With women, there’s a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
I don’t like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It’s just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don’t need and things we can’t have.
Progress is hard to measure in any creative endeavor, I think. It’s often a matter of instinct, of feeling your way through what works and what doesn’t.
As an actor, the only thing you have is your instinct and your imagination.
Every story I do is about people. It’s my survival instinct – one person, one story.
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
You grow up loving movies, and your first instinct is you want to be an actor, because those are the people you see in the movies. But when you actually become an actor, you’re like, ‘Oh, wait, this is actually only a small portion of the storytelling. If I want to really tell a story, I’d want to be a director.’
It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you’re presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.
When you’re wide, you’re taught to try and get in at the far post so the ball doesn’t go straight across, but from that central position, you can use your instinct where to go.
Cinematography is so much about instinct and intuition – you want the same range of experience going into behind the camera as what you see in front of it. Your life experience will come through the lens.
Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
