instinct

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.

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

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Fighting and writing__ deepest layers of beauty lie not only in the physical and mental realms of what we know, but also as an incognizable instinct, a realm we will never fully know but will forever feel.

Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about is rather more vulnerable. Yet I must cling with all my might to _ my own soul; must hold on to its mischievous, iconoclastic, out-of-step clown-instincts, no matter how great the storm. And if that plunges me into contradiction and paradox, so be it; I've lived in that messy ocean all my life. I've fished in it for my art. This turbulent sea was the sea outside my bedroom window in Bombay. It is the sea by which I was born, and which I carry within me wherever I go.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

In solitude, you listen to sacred voice.