Edward Young Quotes

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

I just go with my gut.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.

A lot of the stuff you do as an actor - or I do, because I can't speak for everyone - is not always consciously thought out. A lot of the time, for me, it's actually just feeling stuff, and it happens all in the moment and your body reacts.

Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Logic is no answer to passion.

As cognitive beings, we rationalise everything. So, I think that's why nemeses are, in general, fascinating to observe, because they decide to act on feelings that we, most of the time, rationalise.

I am a very instinct-driven person.

I don't take very calculated decisions. I just follow my heart.

My music relies solely on the feeling. Just the feeling.

I basically go with whatever my gut tells me.

I'm a very instinctive person. If my heart feels I should do something, I go for it.

I go by my instincts. It's whatever I feel in the scene in the moment.

I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought.

If you feel something, you should do it.

I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.

There's no rhyme or reason to anything that I do. It's whatever seems right at the time.

You always go by your gut. That's the best you can do. You go by what you feel, and you say yes or no based on what it inspires in you.

Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.