Quotes About Instinct

Just FYI," I told Phin, "he was flirting with you." She looked at me, then at Mark's departing form. "Oh. That explains a lot. I'm good at a lot of things, but flirting isn't one of them. Especially with someone I find extremely attractive." "Here's a tip... Don't overthink it. It's more of an instinct than an intellect thing." "Right," she said. "Pheromones." With a sage nod, she followed Mark.

Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, "How do you know when you've finished making love?

Self-awareness is a most peculiar trait among animals. Dogs will bark angrily at a mirror because they don't realize they're looking at themselves, and most other animals are similarly clueless when they're subjected to a formal procedure called the mirror test.

This mish mash of three brains, called the lizard-squirrel-monkey brain, all trying to function at once is one reason why we're nuts.

It is in our biology, this reptilian feeling of wanting what the next guy has.

Unfortunately our old reptilian brain didn't get absorbed, it's still in there squashed with the newer models, like a relative you can't get rid of. This ancient brain, developed about 400 million years ago, is called the brain stem; it is the 'duh' part of the brain. It prompts us to mate, kill and eat, which is perfect if you're living in a field or working at Goldman Sachs.

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

Op de volgende statie van deze kruisweg zien wij hoe de eigenaar de kat met geweld door het luikje probeert te duwen. Maar daar zijn katten niet van gediend. Zij laten zich eerst als een harmonica in elkaar duwen, tot ze wel de helft korter zijn dan gewoonlijk, en zetten daarna of al meteen de tegenaanval in. Tenslotte neemt hij met geheven staart de benen en gaat zich op een veilige afstand zitten wassen.

The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.

For the most time I've followed instinct rather than intelligence, and this has resulted in a modicum of happiness.

A tiger is a tiger; he has his dignity to preserve even though he isn't aware of it!

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.' And

A turtle doesn't have to decide every morning whether to keep on bothering, it just carries on. Maybe that's why man kills everything: envy.

Its some kynd of thing it aint us but yet its in us. Its looking out thru our eye hoals. May be you dont take no noatis of it only some times. Say you get woak up suddn in the middl of the nite. 1 minim youre a sleap and the nex youre on your feet with a spear in your han. Wel it werent you put that spear in your han it wer that other thing whats looking out thru your eye hoals. It aint you nor it dont even know your name. Its in us lorn and loan and sheltering how it can.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

know, when James was born, I knew in here that

His bowels threatened to loosen as the grizzly that moments ago had been playfully bathing was now seething.

O gelmez art?k!'' dedi. ''Nereden biliyorsun?'' dedim. ''Gidi?inden belliydi!'' dedi.

Most carnivorous animals do not eat every day—definitely not three times a day! They know the food they eat moves very slowly through their tracts.

Because your self-preservation instinct keeps telling you, "Unless you have walls you are not safe," unconsciously you keep building them. Later, you struggle with them. This is an endless cycle. But creation is not unwilling to open to you the doors to the beyond. It is not creation's unwillingness that you are struggling with. You are struggling with the walls of resistance that you have built around yourself.