When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.
Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness. . . . Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right. ' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.
You just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart.
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.
I don't have a philosophy. I have an instinct. I accept stuff that I like.
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.
He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.
Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins.
Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.
I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us