Quotes About Instinct

Still, calling on god seems to be a human reflex that has more to do with terror than faith.

magic procedure. And instinct is usually represented by an animal - a dog, a horse, an elephant for instance. In this case,

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn't worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.

Collies learn things quickly but they can also pick up bad habits just as quickly. A simple Border Collie 'task' of digging for a bug or a worm can soon turn into a massive excavation.

Barbara Walters

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

That we may be able to profit by the experience of others, we are endowed with an instinct adapted to the purpose of drawing us into the company of our fellows--this is the social instinct.

Sharks don't kill because they're poor, criminal, insane, or repressed. A shark kills because it's a shark.

Mankind's yearning to engage in sports is older than recorded history, dating back to the time millions of years ago, when the first primitive man picked up a crude club and a round rock, tossed the rock into the air, and whomped the club into the sloping forehead of the first primitive umpire.

Most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep. But there's a third kind of person. The sheepdog. Sheepdogs have fangs like wolves. But their instinct isn't predation. It's protection. All they want, what they live for, is to protect the flock.

I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

Women in the presence of their children were the deadliest of the species.

But some things never change. No matter what else happens in the universe—the fall of communism, the destruction of the ozone, the death of punk rock, whatever—you can at least put your faith in one thing: If a man is pretty, available, and breathing, Tommy will stick his dick in him.

Desire is the essence of a man.

self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.

There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's right for you. Everyone has an opinion, but it was all about what you do or don't do. I was so overloaded, so I let my children dictate the way things were supposed to go, and things fell into place.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.