Quotes: Instinct

If I’d seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I’d intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it’s your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

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 think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

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.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that.