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Quotes About Instinct

It's all about sex and territory, which are what will finish us off in the long run.
~ Margaret Atwood
Think of an adaptation, any adaptation, and some animal somewhere will have thought of it first.
~ Margaret Atwood
Al igual que la mayor parte de especies, de aves a mamíferos, somos territoriales, pero también somos seres sensibles y tenemos capacidad de decisión, de escuchar a la mejor parte de nuestra naturaleza o a la peor. Hemos creado culturas que establecen
~ Margaret MacMillan
Roman noticed that both women seemed instinctively opposed to the idea. "David's the logical choice," said Ulrike. Eric and Cliff protested, but Rikki overrode them. "It's less complicated.
~ Margaret Maron
With unerring African instinct, the negroes had all discovered that Gerald had a loud bark and no bite at all, and they took shameless advantage of him.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Trust your intuition, rather than technology, to protect you from violence.
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload.
~ Chris Gerdes
Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?
~ Alexia Purdy, Disarming
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.
~ Bernard Moitessier
Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.
~ Lenny Bruce
I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.
~ Kim Basinger
Mother's milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for babies because it is nature's perfect food.
~ Robert S. Mendelsohn
The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.
~ Georges Bataille
Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
~ Jack London
Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.
~ Son House
Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.
~ Agatha Christie
Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.
~ Robert Rodriguez
Be aware of your inner voice and follow it, even though most of the time it will tell you the most uncomfortable path to choose.
~ Glenn Close
The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.
~ Steve Yzerman
them, though, tigers can easily go for
~ Anna Claybourne
Man may have the power of reason by his side, but it's the animals that are still in touch with nature.
~ Anna Sewell
Authoritarianism appeals, simply, to people who cannot tolerate complexity: there is nothing intrinsically "left-wing" or "right-wing" about this instinct at all. It is anti-pluralist. It is suspicious of people with different ideas. It is allergic to fierce debates. Whether those who have it ultimately derive their politics from Marxism or nationalism is irrelevant. It is a frame of mind, not a set of ideas.
~ Anne Applebaum
If you stop trying to control your mind so much, you'll have intuitive hunches about what this or that character is all about.
~ Anne Lamott