Top 100 Your Instincts Quotes
#1. The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
Virginia Woolf
#3. 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
#4. Perhaps you could find a way to prudently follow your instincts?"
Morrigan put her arm around Birkita and squeezed. "I'm eighteen. Nothing I do is prudent."
Birkita sighed. "That is what worries me.
P.C. Cast
#5. I think something happens to us biologically when we have children where the worry sets in immediately. And I don't think that ever goes away. But you have to fight your instincts to build walls up around your children or to want to shelter and protect them from everything.
Natalie Maines
#6. Doubt everything [ ... ]. Doubt everything at least once. What you decide to keep, you'll be able to be confident of. And what you decide to ditch, you will replace with what your instincts tell you is true.
Amy Plum
#7. Trust your instincts ... God gave them to you, and they're as valuable as what you learned in school.
Vannetta Chapman
#8. Let your instincts guide you through life, and your eyes see the way through.
Tania Gardana
#9. Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you.
Richard Branson
#10. Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.
Rachel Stevens
#11. Don't always consider all your options. Don't necessarily go for the outcome that seems best every time. Make a mess on occasion. Travel light. Let things wait. Trust your instincts and don't think too long. Relax. Toss a coin. Forgive, but don't forget. To thine own self be true. Living
Brian Christian
#12. When there's no turning back, your instincts will lead you forward.
T.D. Jakes
#13. You have permission to walk away from anything that doesn't feel right. Trust your instincts and listen to your inner-voice - it's trying to protect you.
Bryant McGill
#14. Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere.
Brian Koslow
#15. I think this is an exciting time to be a female filmmaker. Trust your instincts, work harder than anyone else and learn your craft. Know it all. This means learn how to shoot, edit, produce and direct. Get as much experience as you can and watch a lot of films.
Alex Hammond
#16. Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.
Raquel Welch
#17. Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.
Matt Smith
#18. 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
#20. Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in terms that appeal to your team's best instincts. Persuade and empower as if you are leading and mentoring volunteers.
Tony Dungy
#21. 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
#23. 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
#24. Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over.
Clint Eastwood
#25. When in doubt let your instincts guide you.
Unknown
#26. You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.
Kirk Kerkorian
#27. 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
#28. Trust your instincts, know what you want, and believe in your ability to achieve it.
Biz Stone
#29. The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly.
Emmet Gowin
#30. Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.
Glenn Frey
#31. And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!
Susan Kay
#32. 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
#33. You cannot simply tap your creative nature once and then expect to be done with it. It is a lifelong process: a continual commitment to being open to possibility, trusting your instincts, experimenting, taking risks, and revising.
Fran Sorin
#34. Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.
Fred L. Turner
#36. I'm a firm believer in research, but I'm also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside.
Clint Eastwood
#37. Above all, trust your instincts. If she's the right one, you'll know. If she's not, let her go and be thankful that she was an almost.
Rich Marcello
#38. Trust your instincts, Dad always says. If something feels dodgy to you, if someone feels dodgy, you go with dodgy. Don't give the benefit of the doubt because you want to be a nice person, don't wait and see in case you look stupid. Safe comes first. Second could be too late.
Tana French
#39. Trust what feels true even if that truth requires you to ignore what you know.
Gina Greenlee
#40. Listen to your heart.
Listen to your instincts.
Listen to inner voice.
It is your true self.
It will guide you to make the right choices.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#41. 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
#42. I have the instincts of a minstrel rather than those of a scrivener. There you have it. We are not of the same trade at all and so how can your rules fit me?
John Steinbeck
#43. The kind of kiss that even when it ends, your soul remembers, the kind of kiss that plays in your mind for all of eternity, the kind of kiss that a man gives a woman when his instincts to roam have been tamed.
C.J. English
#44. The thing that I really like is psychology. I love the human mind. I love the choices you make based on your experiences and instincts and your development based on such experiences and so I guess that's why I love acting so much.
Wilmer Valderrama
#45. Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.
Andrew Flintoff
#46. There are many paths beyond the rules of limited thinking. Trust your instincts!
Bryant McGill
#47. Before you look to blame another, look within yourself, for at some point you have not listened to your own instincts.
Leon Brown
#48. Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.
T.D. Jakes
#49. You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.
Clint Eastwood
#50. You can't please everyone, and you have to trust your instincts, and you have to do your work and throw yourself in there and trust your instincts, and just trust that you're doing a good job that I can be proud of as well.
Matt Ryan
#51. You can find the way by yourself naturally, you just need a guide to tell you to be careful, to not do this to impress people, just follow your instincts.
Sebastien Foucan
#53. Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.
Malcolm Gladwell
#54. 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
#55. Marketers and executives are very different from the average consumer, so your instincts may mislead you.
Chad White
#56. 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
#57. You know that stuff about trusting your first instinct when you make a decision? They never say that to me. Taking meds to get along in school is pretty much a license for people to say, "Everyone follow your instincts, but not you.
Steve Lyman
#58. How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?
Laini Taylor
#59. With a play, for me, there's no time to sit back on it. You're living on your instincts. And every night there are subtle changes and adjustments, because what's in front of you is a living, breathing audience.
Eve Myles
#60. Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!
Tennessee Williams
#61. 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
#62. Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.
Chris Bosh
#63. I think people who are regarded as better actors must have better instincts because, at the end of the day, once they say 'action,' it's you who has to do it right. You can do all the research and preparation or none at all, but it's your instincts that tell you, 'No, I'll do it like this.'
Katrina Kaif
#64. If you don't listen to your animal instincts, you are placing too much importance on knowledge thereby not being wise.
Karen Salmansohn
#65. 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
#66. 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
#68. Ove cushions all your irritations, unnatural instincts, hatreds and immaturities.
Ray Bradbury
#69. THE MISCONCEPTION: Your fight-or-flight instincts kick in and you panic when disaster strikes. THE TRUTH: You often become abnormally calm and pretend everything is normal in a crisis.
David McRaney
#70. Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.
Ken Danby
#72. As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.
Jim Gaffigan
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. Trust your feelings never disown your instincts.
N.G. Osborne
#76. Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.
Brittany Murphy
#77. Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that I don't know what I'm doing but-I think if you're able to follow your instincts, then that's knowing what you're doing.
David Byrne
#78. Have the discipline to listen to and to trust your instincts.
A.D. Posey
#79. There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of a film and what is repetitive and what is the minimum amount you can get away with to tell the story, that scene didn't make it in.
Peter Jackson
#80. Never give up, trust your instincts!
Falco
#81. How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.
Price Pritchett
#82. Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
D.H. Lawrence
#83. My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.
Erica Schroeder
#84. Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#85. Learning to trust your instincts, using your intuitive sense of what's best for you, is paramount for any lasting success.
Ashwin Sanghi
#86. I always tell actors when they go in for an audition: Don't be afraid to do what your instincts tell you. You may not get the part, but people will take notice.
Robert De Niro
#87. Ad agencies do all kinds of market research that ask people what they think they want, and instead, you should be creating things that you want. If you do something and you get it, the rest of the world will get it, too. Trust your own instincts, your own intellect, and your own sense of humor.
George Lois
#88. Sometimes your instincts were wrong. Your body wants you to survive but sometimes there are more important things than just surviving.
Karina Halle
#89. Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses.
Noel Coward
#90. The key to handling pressure situations like these is to keep yourself steady, follow your instincts and think clearly.
Sachin Tendulkar
#91. Acknowledge yourself for your greatness and your instincts and know that you always do your best even when the outcomes don't appear that way.
Malti Bhojwani
#92. Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#93. It's hard to learn to listen to your instincts. It's easier for some who have a natural ability to follow that little voice inside, but for others it takes practice.
Judith-Victoria Douglas
#94. Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.
Andrea Arnold
#97. As the waters of life wash over us, we lose our sharp corners, and that can be good or bad...trust your instincts, remember your 'secret pacts' and reclaim the wisdom you have always had
Daniel Gottlieb
#98. You have to decide what level you want to participate in your children's lives. The more you do, the better your relationship is going to be. You have to listen to your instincts. You know when it's time to lay down the law.
Laird Hamilton
#99. You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts.
Gordon Korman
#100. Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there.
Anton Szandor LaVey
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