Quotes About Instinct

The law doesn't always know what it's doing. Humans have a far greater instinct for what's right in life than lawyers do.

I can feel every self-defensive instinct waking up. Because here's the thing I need to remember: life is good at the moment. And I'm not about to blight it by pining after a man. I'm not about to hope for impossible things. However well we seemed to work together.

The law doesn't always know what it's doing,' he adds for good measure. 'Humans have a far greater instinct for what's right in life than lawyers do.

But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life. And I have this very strong gut instinct that what I've done is the right thing.

But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life. And I have this very strong gut instinct that what I've done is the right thing. maybe not the easy thing-but the right thing.

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.

The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Make a liberty without the instinctive duress.

The Unexpected GiftTorn asunder from her slumberin the hour of half past threeThe child knew the tyrannical regimeand followed instinctively.-(slice from Enigmatic Evolution)

Sometimes animals are more human than men and other times men are more animals than animals

Humans hunt and kill maneaters.What if animals hunted animal eaters?!

If you're born with in the wild you run with the wild

Trust your gut, and don't let fear get the best of you.

Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. We have not outgrown this.

Regardless of who you are, the brain pays a great deal of attention to several questions: "Can I eat it? Will it eat me?" "Can I mate with it? Will it mate with me?" "Have I seen it before?

Most of its functions involve what some researchers call the "four Fs": fighting, feeding, fleeing, and … reproductive behavior.

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties

my father] usually concealed his rages with unconvincing politeness to contain his sparse energy, an instinct I may have inherited

You can take the ape out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the ape.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Sex comes from such a lost, primitive place, we can never understand it's meaning until we're in its throes, until we've released that second being within us, shut down, shadowed, who doesn't know how to think of speak but can only communicate in burning grandiose sensations, from the heart of a fireball.

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.