The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst....

Now that this destiny was about to happen, every instinct within him fought against it, realizing he had been fetishizing suicide.

I’ve come to realise I work so much better when I’m going by instinct.

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

Yes I believe a man will compliment my life oneday, but what’s the rush.. I mean everyone’s searching so passionately for something to fill the void and I don’t want any part in that, I’m...

Intelligent men never do a business; only a fool kills his own beautiful instincts for the sake of a word profit.

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...

All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and… if I think of human beings I’ve known and of my own life, such as it is, I can’t recall any case of pain which...

He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.

I just listened to my gut instinct and it told me that J.J. was our best runner from the tailback position. I had a hard time calling the plays the last few weeks, but what...

The herd instinct is as strong with multimillionaires as it is with any two- or four-legged animal.

It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than...

Sometimes you just have to trust your instincts; it may be all you have to trust.

He just wanted to keep us focused. He has a good instinct for that, a good feel for that.

An innate, typically fixed pattern of behaviour is our instinct. A sense of intuitive thought/feeling. An urge, an inner prompting, a drive, a compulsion. That quirky urge, that little voice inside you, those gut feelings...

I’d give up three days just to get three hours with the woman I love. Of course this instinct is the reason why my investment decisions always look so great—for the people on the other...

Your voice is yours, how dare you let another speak for you.Your heart is yours, how dare you give it away, so freely to another you hardly know. Your soul is yours, how dare you...

The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth but it has an ability to access the truth. But the very conscience is assembled only by...

Love is the king of the beastsAnd when it gets hungry it must kill to eatLove is the king of the beastsA lion walking down city streets

You’ve got to have killer instinct. For the first time all year, we did that. You can’t trade baskets, especially at this time because that’s when you get beat.

None of my mental activities for the past twenty-four hours might be called thinking. I had allowed my body to take charge. It knew far more about escaping and healing than I did.

Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.

There is a built-in incentive to demolish. The first instinct after natural disasters is almost always to demolish buildings. It is almost always wrong.

Think of instinct as an unscientific, unquantifiable tool that can be used along with more concrete evaluations to make a well-rounded decision.

Their first instinct should be to answer questions about our security rather than launch a public relations offensive, and when that fails do what they should’ve done from day one,

Every time I’ve done something that doesn’t feel right, it’s ended up not being right.

Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impressions have sunk down to the bottom of the mental lake. Although they go down, they aren’t...

And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are a person’s most valuable asset. My own instincts have repeatedly guided me against...

You can have tons of talent, but it won’t necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you’ll never go hungry.

Your intuition won’t fail you, the quest dear; is to silence your mind so you can feel your way home.

My instinct tells me it’ll only cover a small fraction of fuel increases.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages...

We always talk about that killer instinct. You don’t want to trade baskets at this time of the year, and I thought for the first time all year we really put the hammer down.

I don’t know if it’s instinct or what, but he always wants to be able to see you. That’s just the way he is.

Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don’t limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility

Oh darling, don’t be bitter. It’s the first instinct of the weak.

When teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

It amazes the will of Instinct.

To horses, everyday is a new day to survive. It’s a natural instinct. They don’t think of the past or the future, only the present. So in terms of trying to teach your horse or...

Can we account for instinct?’ said Monte Cristo. ‘Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries...

Tabini was at least canny enough in the differences between atevi and human to know that, gut level, he might think he understood – but chances were very good that he wouldn’t, couldn’t, and never...

for to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses.”Separation anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analysts, XLI, 1-25 (1959(

Trust what your instincts are telling you, it’s your souls voice pointing you in the right direction.

Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.

My mouth hung slightly open, i was getting ready to sat something important. what i wanted to say was: I’s so, so sorry. but instead I said, “i love you.” Only then, when i said...

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.