There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
I just write by instinct and my screenplays are often the effort of a year-long penance on a subject.
Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he’s worthy of your love.
There’s no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there’s much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.
Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
Both me and my wife’s extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it’s a homing instinct.
As a mayor, my instinct is to really think about how to get something done and not to make the promise unless you have some view of the pathway. You don’t have to have it all figured out, but you have to have a pathway there.
Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.
Durant, man! Has that killer instinct.
Men have to stay strong. ‘They fight, it’s normal. Females don’t have that instinct.
Accidents on big mountains happen when people’s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
Everything in ‘Satya’ was by chance. It was a film which just started evolving by itself. I just went mostly by instinct and kept on improvising on location, and the film just got made itself.
Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.
It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.
I think especially as creative people we rely so heavily on our gut instinct to create emotional beats or bring scripts to life. Go with what you feel is right, because thats all we can really do. Were the expert of our own experience, so be as authentic as you can.
If you don’t know things, you know, you just go by your instinct.
The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct.
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
I think I have an instinct of, like, the right record comes knocking at my door and says, ‘Want to come out to play?’ and I go.
The instinct of the Labour Party is if there’s a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they’re sure it’s not going to deliver.
Leadership is about having the courage to go against the advice of the so-called experts and doing what your instinct tells you is right.
Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you’re playing a show and there’s a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise – people talking or something – I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
I think, when I’m on the court, I become with a killer instinct – a real Scorpio.
When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.
Reason is the servant of instinct.
