Instinctive Action Quotes

I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it is suppressed. Consequently, one is behaving normally and instinctively and healthily when one is creating - literature, art, music, or whatever. An excellent cook is also creative! I am disturbed that a natural human inclination [creative work] should, by some Freudian turn of phrase, be considered compulsive - perhaps even pathological. To me this is a complete misreading of the human enterprise. One should also enjoy one's work, and look forward to it daily.

He doesn't think. He just does. A nonthinking doer.

I was never one to think about why I need to go running or go to the gym - it just came naturally to me.

I'm one of those wrestlers that leaves everything to the audience and to the fans. I never plan anything, and you will never see Alberto Patron planning in the back what he is going to do in the match.

When I act, I act with my skin.

You know, I don't ask myself too much how. I just do it.

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

You just can't take the doctor out of you.

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.

There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment.

Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.

I don't think about consequences too much.

They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.

We do not think of life - we live it. We do not think of ourselves too much. We do not think of others too much... We just behave in a natural way.

I don't go out there looking, 'Hey, let me make this throw to show off my arm or anything like that.' But if it's there, I've got to take the chance.

I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.

In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

I am in a closed state where I'm just reacting and moving based on my instincts, knowledge, technique and years of experience.

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.