Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

- Barbara Corcoran

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

- Christopher Alexander

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

- Charles Darwin

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

- Ben Elton

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

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.

- Bernardo Bertolucci

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

- Billy Wilder

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.

- Bill Blass

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Barbra Streisand

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

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

- Amanda Hale

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

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 comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

- Austin Peck

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

- Andrea Arnold

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

- Armistead Maupin

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

- Ayrton Senna

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

- Anatole France

It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.

- Alice Paul