Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. – Henri Bergson
I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I’ve ever gone against my instincts, I’ve regretted it. – Julia Roberts
In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don’t bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand. – Carine Roitfeld
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour. – Adam Hochschild
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. – Bertrand Russell
The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can’t learn it, you can’t buy it, you can’t put it in a bottle. It’s just there and it comes out. – Alan Sugar
Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It’s easier, and we’re usually right! But it rarely works. – Bruce Feiler
Their every instinct – and I have to say this is without exception – is to iron out the bumps, and It’s always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff. – Adrian Lyne
I think there’s an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the ‘Saw’ movies. – Amber Heard
Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds. – Anne Archer
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. – Evelyn Waugh
I’ve always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily – it’s just kind of instinct, really. You’ve got to channel your subconscious. – Florence Welch
When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, ‘animalistic’ instinct. – Frans de Waal