Top 70 Instinctively Quotes

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

As a kid, I could just pick up melody and harmony instinctively, and that’s why I can play lots of instruments.

I didn’t think, ‘I’d really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles… ‘ It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to.

I think, primarily, we love spy thrillers, and I think, instinctively, we love the tension that those thrillers can bring.

Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment.

Really, if I’m honest, sci-fi is where my sensibility instinctively goes – I’m a big comic-book fan.

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.

It’s a very hard thing to explain when we sit with writers on our shows. But then if they show us a sketch, instinctively we’d know who we’d play.

I’m instinctively very suspicious and guarded, and I try to counteract it so much. I find reason allows you to be open, and my only sort of ambition in life is to try and be as open as possible.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me.

Everybody knows how to throw a punch. Not correctly – he or she might not know how to turn the wrist or know what part of the hand to hit with. But humans instinctively know to fight, whether they bite or claw or pull hair. It’s an instinct.

Megyn Kelly is one of those rare women who seamlessly combines professional excellence and family. She doesn’t need a catch phrase to define what she instinctively has accomplished. She just ‘does it.’

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service reciprocation.

The moment I feel pressure to read a book, I instinctively rebel against it – which is probably one reason I didn’t last long in college.

That’s been a huge recurring thing in growing up – allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It’s come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it’s kind of out of my hands now.

Sometimes it takes you two or three seconds to get your head round a joke and laugh at it. With a snot-bubble laugh, it comes instinctively – almost in spite of yourself. It’s caused by something silly – like when a little kid says something unexpectedly bizarre.

We are all somebody’s children, and when we’re in pain, we regress, instinctively looking to our parents to make everything better.

For me, family feels like a web of love and care, and instinctively, too, I do just like nurturing things.

Having emigrated to the United States as a small boy from the Soviet Union, I am instinctively suspicious of socialism and inveterately opposed to communism.

Liberals instinctively cling to racism or bigotry or hate or narrow-mindedness whenever they can.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.

I suppose I am instinctively flirtatious. But not exclusively to women. I want to be liked.

I write plays instinctively. I don’t like writing movie scripts.

Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think… All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.

I’ve never understood cheating, probably because I never cared much about my grades. I instinctively knew that the grades didn’t measure anything meaningful – usually just my ability to quickly memorize information I’d just as quickly forget.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

When the brain gets an injury, the body just instinctively responds and it almost shuts everything else down.

I don’t think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense – but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.

There’s something always instinctively visually right about nature. There’s no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it’s great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.

I don’t claim to know what it means to say that we are made in the image of God, but I profoundly and instinctively believe it and all that it implies.

I’ve never tried writing at a coffeehouse. I just know instinctively it’s not for me.

I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won’t destroy ourselves in other ways.

If I had the gift of Jerry Seinfeld, of Bill Cosby, of Lewis Black, these instinctively brilliant comic minds, then you go that route! But you gotta know your limitations. I’m more of an actor, more of a process guy. I did Tom Snyder, just as Danny Aykroyd did on ‘SNL.’ I did it in the club.

I do a lot of things instinctively.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

After working at the ‘Guardian’ for two decades, I feel I know instinctively why it exists. Most of our journalists and our readers do, too – it’s something to do with holding power to account and upholding liberal values.

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other’s, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

We’ve all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.

I know how to hit a mark without looking. I instinctively know where my eye line should be. That’s all 100%. But your character and the story are always different, so the emotional part is not muscle memory. You’re still surprised by stuff and get the adrenaline.

There’s a pattern in Bush 43’s presidency of being attracted to the big and the bold, and my whole reading of him is that he was instinctively uncomfortable with what you might call a modulated foreign policy – a foreign policy of adjustment, of degree.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

I try to live instinctively. And I guess I’ve always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming.

I don’t use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it’s never because I use my brain.

When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of ‘Peter Pan’ for the school play. They didn’t use it – I imagine it was unperformable – but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me.

I work instinctively. If I like something, I do it.

I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and homage to the twin miracles of creation and consciousness.

I’m instinctively cautious because I’m an academic.

Being pregnant and carrying a child is a blessing unique to womankind and a mother instinctively wants the best for her child.

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

I’m instinctively a Conservative.

Even if you don’t mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there’s a more basic problem: He’s not a natural campaigner, and on the stump he instinctively recoils from any personal connection with the voters.

The Jews are not merely hook-nosed but understand money instinctively.

There’s no emotion. I just see the gap and, instinctively, go for it.

Singing and being truthful to a song… I’ve developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that’s all I’ve been doing for the last 25 years.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

We do things instinctively and not necessarily rationally. It’s almost like we’re being controlled by unseen forces, which is something I don’t like. I’ve been making a real effort to try to find out what those forces are and get them out of my life.

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!

I behave instinctively and impulsively.

I wasn’t beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I’m far too superficial for that. I just act instinctively.

People understand the tremendous sacrifices that veterans have made – and they instinctively want to do something for them. And that sometimes leads people to give veterans an excuse: Oh, you didn’t show up for work on time. It must be that you have posttraumatic stress disorder. Oh, you’re disabled. Don’t even try.

I’ll tell you what I do have: I have a good feel for ordinary people, for politics, and those are my strengths. I understand, I hope instinctively, where many of our Armed Forces come from.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

The worry in Labour circles is that, when pressed, Gordon Brown instinctively moved to cut the benefits of the poor rather than upset businesses and the wealthy.