Instinct Quotations | Page 4

It's awfully nice for any coach to have a player of his caliber that can control his offense as well as manipulating the ball against the opposing team's defense. He does some incredible things. And all of that is not by design; it's just instinct.

It's about that killer instinct, the great teams have that and we need to look for it. We need to teach our team that killer instinct.

It's all a game to Theodore. It's a natural instinct. He wants the ball more than anything.

It's more positional play now. Before, if you got beat, your first instinct was to grab and hook and in most cases, you were allowed to get away with that, especially when you were short-handed. Now, if you do that, they call it, and you're down five on three. Your body position has to be a lot better.

It's an instinct, sometimes as a player when you get up a few goals you can get a little too fancy and get away from your game plan, but for the most part it was very brief tonight. We kept the puck going ahead tonight. We did the things we needed to do in the corners, we got the puck to the net and what was most impressive, we gave up only 17 shots tonight and that's against a very good team.

It's hard to ignore Jennifer. She has a good instinct, she has a nose for the products and she is reasonably unafraid. If she thinks something, she'll write it.

You try to get the killer instinct and when you get to that position you have to play harder, but we would make the crucial mistake.

That's that killer instinct that teams need to have at this point in the season. That's going to get them somewhere.

It's something new for us still to be ahead by three goals. It takes a while to get that instinct to really finish somebody off. A pretty easy game, really one that we're dominating I thought, then we let up a little bit.

It's an experience thing. He's got a great set of skills and physically he's got everything but he's still 20 years of age. His natural instinct is to stay on his feet and offload the ball and that will take a while to change.

It'll be a hard adjustment. I've been trying to reach a point where these guys have a killer instinct.

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.

It was like in high school when I used to return punts. A lot of people say I have good vision. I kind of felt the guy coming across my body and my first instinct was to cut back. It's a hard tackle when you're coming across a person's body and then they cut back. It was just mostly instinct.

It was more or less just an instinct thing, ... Seeing the situation, I just took a gamble. It might be a little bit out of the norm but every run against Randy is huge.

It was a gut instinct. It had this incredible comfortable feel.

I want our young guys to keep wrestling aggressively. They just have to start minimizing their mistakes and using their heads along with instinct to make the right decisions and win the match.

They came to play. They came out and had a killer instinct. They made us stand back and check what we were doing. But in the second half, we put our game back together.

It was hard for us to maintain our focus. We didn't have the killer instinct today and we played like it. We were not aggressive like normal, but Joe coaches that team very well and I was impressed with some of what I saw from those guys.

It was just instinct. We were down and I couldn't let us lose it.

That's an instinct play that I won't ever hesitate to make.

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,

The instinct to preplan has been around for a long time.

The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.

The fall of man is caused by the seductiveness of Inspiration, Pleasure, Natural Beauty, Material Instinct and their refusal too cooperate with their counterparts, Imagination, Inelligence, Passion, and Instinct.

I'm not interested in attention and I don't like being gawked at. I have no interest in standing out from the crowd whatsoever. If anything, my instinct is to hide, to be reclusive.

I'm feeling my way and a lot of it right now for me is instinct. I'm meeting with the coaches, spending extra time trying to study and catch up and just get familiar with the system.

In all three matches we have lacked the killer instinct which both the All Blacks and England possess.

I'm often troubled by a very strong instinct to share everything that's going on with me. I want to feel that connection, even with people I don't know. Then this other voice says, 'That's not prudent. People will use what you've said to hurt you.'

If Molly sees a lake, her instinct is to run into it. She would just keep going if no one stopped her. That would be an important function of the dog.

I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here.

I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.

I never thought about draw or lose before each game. I always think about winning the match, whatever the color of my shirt. I play by instinct, and my instinct is to goal. I will not do any other things that not related to it.

I'm very pleased. I've got goose bumps right now just thinking about it. I'm starting to see the team we're looking for. Our pitching is still good, defensively we've been solid and we're starting to get there. We're starting to get that little instinct in us now that we need to have. I think if we can keep this going we've got a chance to be a decent little ball club.

I guess you have to have John Pilger. With his tan, his Byronic haircut, his trudging priestly delivery and his evident self-love, your main instinct is to flip right over to BBC1...

If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around you. You lead from weakness into strength; you have an undefended back.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.

I know a lot of people were disappointed with how they came back. I think that's a good thing that people felt like that. I like that our team is showing that we've got a killer instinct and we're not going to be satisfied with just winning, even if it is against a good team like Notre Dame.

I have this magpie instinct for the next glittering object. There are one or two things I know I can't write about, though: DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.

In these markets there is a herd instinct where people rush out to buy but then as soon as people think differently suddenly there are no buyers.

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

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 J.J. did today really opened everything up.

In the long run this is going to be a good thing. Most of the calls we respond to are people dropping off the shoulder of the road. They lose control of their car and their first instinct is to snatch back. Adding the 5 feet of barrier will give them somewhere to pull off to.

If your instinct is that someone is not good in your life, then you should follow that instinct.

In my kennel, you'll see all different shapes, sizes, color patterns. Because it's not about that. It's about their instinct.

I had a gut instinct, ... We thought we were clearly doing the right thing, and it was time and we needed a new generation of leaders.

Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.

Hey, this has been said before over the past century or so. But there's a survival instinct going on that is demonstrated on a small scale here.

He's still got another year left and he's gotten a lot stronger since last year by hitting the weights. He's about 210 pounds, which is about 15 pounds more than last year. He's starting to assert himself as one of the best big men in the City.... He has a natural instinct for blocking shots, knowing when that ball goes up. He gets off the ground pretty quickly. In his mind, he wants to block every shot. He's such a fierce shot-blocker. He makes the shooter think every time they come in his area, every time.

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.

I didn't know whether Sam would come in and want to try to be funny or try to add to the comedy by creating a comedy version of the character people know him to play. He played it very straight, and that was his instinct and that was the right instinct.

I didn't help because my first instinct was I was in a dangerous situation and a crime was being committed, ... I stayed, not just out of curiosity, but because I wanted to help if I could establish someone needed help." ()

By nature, we're compassionate people. Women bear children and they have that instinct to take care of people. And that kind of spills over to governing.

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

I rely a great deal on animal instincts.

Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.

God gave women instinct and womanliness. Utilized appropriately, the combo effortlessly disorders the mind of any man I've ever met.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.

I think everyone should follow their instincts, and go with what they feel, and follow their heart.

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.

As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.

The biggest thing I've learned is to listen to my own gut. I have learned to trust my instincts.

Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.

If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts.

You just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart.

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

You cannot love without intuition.

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.

Habit can overcome anything but instinct, and can greatly modify even that.

I certainly understand the instinct to favor someone with whom you make a personal connection. But I also understand, and everyone else does, the import of also doing the fundamentals in terms of a background check.

I can't stand the idea of missing something. I've got to know what's going on - it's like an animal instinct with me.

I drove up here and I got out of the car and I really felt the energy intensely. I was taken aback by it a bit. My first instinct was: I need to get back in the car and sit for a minute. And just relax. This is really intense.

However, they were so appreciative of the donation, it just provided me with a certain amount of joy. A member of the International Association for Volunteer Effort, that I belong to as well, told me that appreciation comes from an instinct of basic survival and gratefulness for anything rather than worrying about the quality of the donation.

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

He can be a bat off the bench for us in Atlanta at some point in time. He's got a very patient demeanor. He's always had an instinct to hit.

We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.

My instinct is to be very controlling.

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

I've had a great life following my faith and my instincts.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.

A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.