Top 100 My Instincts Quotes
#1. Only when I heard her bedroom door open and close did I give in to my beast instincts and do a wild animal dance around the room.
Alex Flinn
#2. My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.
Barack Obama
#3. I'm very headstrong and I know what I want from life. I listen to peoples' opinions, but a lot of the time I'll trust my own instincts. I'm also really clumsy, so I'm always getting hurt.
Ashley Tisdale
#5. From the moment I said it, I could feel the butterflies in my stomach. My Ryder instincts and my Ryder conscience needed to get it together. One refused to let me back down, while the other condemned my actions in not doing so.
Hollow Ryan
#6. Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.
Andrew Bird
#7. You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.
Philipp Meyer
#8. There was, like, a week straight of shooting, where, like, all I did was shoot a machine gun. And I hate to - every - it went against all my Jewish and Canadian instincts, but I enjoyed every second of it.
Seth Rogen
#9. I don't throttle and smother people in my life.. Not because I don't have my own fair share of doubts and sometimes, yes, insecurities.. But I have a great deal of confidence in my instincts that I've chosen the right one to trust.. When I trust, I do so with my whole heart..
Laarni Venus Marie Giango
#10. I don't think I have ever taken any 'offbeat' advice. Actually, I don't know I take any advice very often. I trust my own instincts and seek out information so I can make fully informed decisions. That's what's worked for me.
Diane Hendricks
#11. I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.
Francis Bacon
#12. I'm not a religious or spiritual man. I am guided solely by my instincts, my gut. And they have led me to you. Without you, I have nothing to believe in.
Jessica Hawkins
#13. Believe it or not, I'm not really thinking about anything when I putt ... It's hard to teach. I let my instincts take over. I like to see which way the break is going and use it. When I'm putting well, I feel like I can make everything.
Brad Faxon
#14. I don't know anything other than that it's always been her, from the moment I saw her three years ago. She's the thing that I've yearned for more than anything else. And for that reason, she's the one thing I can never have. I cannot control my urges. My instincts.
A. Zavarelli
#15. I am somebody who creates images, with my perspectives, fascinations and my instincts as a narrator. You have to activate the audience's imagination. If you are just giving them scientific results, they would forget the film in five minutes flat.
Werner Herzog
#16. My attitude toward spiders is similar to my attitude toward ballerinas: I am in awe of your natural beauty and flawless instincts, but if you come in my house I will kill you.
Eric D. Snider
#17. All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.
Emma Watson
#18. I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives."
Susan Sarandon
#19. In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
Gerald R. Ford
#20. Meditation helped me to access the same thing my writing did: my intelligence and my instincts beyond the turmoil that inhabited the forefront of my mind.
Jewel
#21. I searched my soul, and discovered that there was nothing anywhere in my upbringing, experience, or even primal instincts to tell me how to react to someone who has quite simply, calmly, sitting right there in front of me, stolen one of my biscuits.
Douglas Adams
#22. I don't really have a drive toward being a director at all. Not that I wouldn't rule it out, but I just don't think my instincts lie necessarily in a very visual way. But I am very interested in storytelling, narrative and character development, so writing is something that I absolutely want to do.
Rose McIver
#23. The only damn thing I ever learned in all my years in art school was a piece is never done, it is just finished. You have to trust your inner voice, your instincts, when they tell you pencils down. And you roll up your sleeves and you start over again.
Brian Michael Bendis
#24. Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award that recognized my artistic instincts.
Paul Smith
#25. I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
George Orwell
#26. All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#27. I'm always afraid going into strange places, but I also choose carefully and listen to my instincts. These were men I could trust. I'm a pretty good judge of crazy versus sad. I prefer sad.
Laurel Nakadate
#28. As I look back I know that most of the mistakes I have made have come when I didn't listen to myself, when I didn't trust my instincts ... I believe you need to listen, carefully, to hear your inner voice. And then, you have to do what it says.
Christine Todd Whitman
#29. I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.
Mark Kozelek
#30. I would be the first to admit that my maternal instincts are not well developed
though in defense I must add that the raising of Ramses would have discouraged any woman.
Elizabeth Peters
#31. I like to do things that frighten me. When I'm afraid, I understand more things. I want the feeling... All my instincts cry out against it, every morning anew. Then I say, 'I should do it. If I don't do it, no one will do it for me.
David Grossman
#32. 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
#33. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.
Hunter S. Thompson
#34. I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparation, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woods lore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures.
Fred Bear
#35. My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.
Albert Rosenfeld
#36. It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.
Hart Crane
#37. God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.
Julia Ward Howe
#38. I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
Kangana Ranaut
#39. I like doing whatever interests me. It's a challenge for me to try to make good comics out of any genre I tackle. I trust my instincts in getting me through the more difficult genres for modern readers, like violent crime or horror stories.
Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
#40. That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.
Malcolm Gladwell
#41. Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.
Christina Aguilera
#42. Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.
Rebecca Hall
#43. 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
#44. Luna, the thought of losing you is like losing my heart. You have me completely, and if you died because I wasn't there to protect you, it would kill me. I know you're strong, I know you're different, but that doesn't change my natural instincts. I still have to protect you.
Justine Winter
#45. Trying to separate myself from my instincts of pessimism and cut out and define what it is that I really do love, what I'm here to be, why I'm here, and what I think is worth being alive for and fighting for. And those things change, but I think that that's something I am always chasing.
El-P
#46. Trust your judgment, baby witch. No one else's. You've got good instincts for someone flakier than my mum's pie crust. (Leprechaun to Rachel)
Kim Harrison
#47. Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
Charles Darwin
#48. I no longer think I lack judgment about men. I will never again say my instincts are poor, no sir, because how do I keep finding this same guy over and over? I am beginning to think I have a very keen sense of judgment, only it would seem that it is on somebody else's side.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#49. I suppose my understanding of villains is that they're just people who are infected by all of the darker instincts - that they haven't got the discipline to make the right choices.
Tom Hiddleston
#50. In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.
Clay Aiken
#51. I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.
Daniel Radcliffe
#52. My mind has cleared a little; I've regained some instincts and associations, echoes of the Living world if not actual memories. Those I still have to steal.
Isaac Marion
#53. My instincts tell me that you will spiral into a very unhealthy place if you start pondering about how other people think about you and, quite frankly, I don't want to go there.
Jodhi May
#54. One of my missions is to get people to go, "Oh, she's really nice and I really like her, but what were the words she just said?!" I want your instincts to be at odds with your mind.
Lucy Lawless
#55. I've never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn't feel right or isn't going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.
Fatima Robinson
#56. No," he admitted, and my instincts sang out at his reluctance. "That's across the hall."
Crutch swinging, I started for the door, almost pushing Quen out of my way. "Just over there, you say?" I said,
Kim Harrison
#57. My hunch is that as the importance of a decision grows, the tendency to rely on quantitative analyses done by others tends to shrink. When the championship or the future of the company is on the line, managers tend to rely on their gut instincts.
Richard H. Thaler
#58. When my animal instincts desire the forbidden, I feel pleasure in seeking them without constrictions placed by laws, worldly or religious
Rochelle Magee
#59. I think the good news for me in life is that I really trust my instincts when I come to work. Maybe less in life and in love, but in work and in comedic beats, I feel pretty confident.
Ari Graynor
#60. I don't know if I'm teaching my kids right, but you have to go with your own instincts. You can't be so sure that other people are going to do right by you.
Howie Mandel
#61. Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
Claude Monet
#62. Being "America's Sweetheart", that label gets put on a lot of people. I don't pay that much attention. And I'm not trying to shake anything. I'm just following my instincts and doing work that is coming to me and I'm just grateful for it.
Jennifer Aniston
#63. My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.
Lynne Stewart
#64. I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.
Katrina Kaif
#65. My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.
Christopher Buckley
#66. I don't follow fashion and I don't follow trends, I just follow my instincts
Victoria Beckham
#67. My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.
Erica Schroeder
#68. I've always been really in touch with my primal instincts. In my profession, you have to be.
Andy Serkis
#69. 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
#70. When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.
Angelina Jolie
#71. 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.
Bjork
#72. The biggest thing I've learned is to listen to my own gut. I have learned to trust my instincts.
Jeff Foxworthy
#73. It was true; books had saved me in my home remodeling projects, but they fell short in teaching me how to trust my instincts, and how to stop thinking with my educated brain and more with my kneecaps and butt cheeks.
Dee Williams
#74. When I feel something in my gut, I can feel it physically. But my instincts seem to come from a different place - they feel headier to me, and I get the wrong scent, and go off on these whims where I think that something is happening when it's not.
Emma Stone
#75. I do love writing. It doesn't come to me as readily as I think acting does. I think acting is in my instincts. Writing is a craft that I work very hard at. And I have to train and continue to develop.
David Dastmalchian
#76. I can feel the sickening fear inside of me subside as my instincts take over. Inside of me are animal instincts. They were born in a world I wasn't. They take over when I need them to. They've taught me how to survive. I have learned it is the most important part of the world I live in.
Tara Brown
#77. Every time I trust my instincts I land on my feet and every time I don't, I go, "Why didn't I trust my instinct?"
Brad Furman
#78. I had a choice. My instincts told me to hurry up and give the choking man the Heimlich maneuver. My brain told me to stay still until he expired and chalk this one up to divine intervention.
Dinah Katt
#79. I will follow my instincts, and be myself for good or ill.
John Muir
#80. At times, I want to explode like a bomb or give in to my animalistic instincts like the others. But my father raised me better. He'd
Abi Ketner
#81. My family especially has always taught me to be myself and not let other people's opinions change me. To always believe my instincts and follow my heart.
Witney Carson
#82. I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.
Tom Kenny
#83. Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.
Drew Barrymore
#85. I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake.
Emeril Lagasse
#87. There were no rules. There's no guide to follow. I would just trust my instincts for some unknown reason. Something inside me would say, "This guitar is not loud enough," and I wouldn't know why. You never know how to reach that point until you've reached it.
Greg Saunier
#88. I've always thought I had pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list of people I've worked with over my career with whom I've not been able to distinguish easily between the public persona and the real private person.
Randall Robinson
#89. All my instincts tell me to cover and cherish you fiercely, with each breath, and work harder to make you mine. Each and every time you try and push me away, to put that guard of yours back up, I need to hold on tighter, chase faster. Until my arms are the ones you want to run into.
S.E. Hall
#90. And my instincts tell me that Raffe is mine. I found him first.
Susan Ee
#91. I don't have a lot of domestic instincts," Ranger said to me, his attention fixing on the unidentifiable glob in my hair, "but I have a real strong urge to take you home and hose you down."
I went dry mouth. Connie bit into her lower lip, and Lula fanned herself with a file.
Janet Evanovich
#92. I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.
David O. Russell
#94. Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.
Mario Balotelli
#96. To me, I always listen to what my instincts tell me. The biggest mistakes I've ever made is when I've ignored what I know to be true in my heart.
Glenda Bailey
#97. It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him.
Mike Royko
#98. It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. That's why the first recipe I made up was 'I Ain't Chicken Chicken' because I finally felt bold and fearless in the kitchen, which was an entirely new feeling for me.
Aarti Sequeira
#99. Never presume that I will not act on my worst instincts.
Cesare Borgia
#100. I don't really follow market research. In the end, I respond to my own instincts.
Anna Wintour
