Quotes About Instinct

Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life.

Things that make me angry and sad, I cannot hide. It's not because I want to be a rebel; it's my instinct. When something touches me deeply, I really have to react.

The moment I feel pressure to read a book, I instinctively rebel against it - which is probably one reason I didn't last long in college.

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

I want to reconnect to my animal life.

When I hurt Norton, I got scared. I looked to the referee. But in the same sense, you're a fighter: you gotta have the killer instinct.

The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.

When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. As you grow up that instinct becomes more refined, but it's still there.

Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're having a hard time.

I don't want to be going to bed at night thinking that people want to harm us, or my family, because that's when the lioness comes out.

Fear and hatred can be the things that drive you. I don't always think of fear as a bad thing, it gives you fight-or-flight.

When you're out there thinking too much, that's when you can throw the ball away a lot of times. Just play. When I don't think, I have fun.

I only act from my heart.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.

With my own stuff, I've always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right.

We have fear as soon as we are born, we are born into a state of physical helplessness.

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

Linebacking is easy. Hike the ball, and I know where to go.

You must try to divorce your actions from conscious control. Try not to focus on anything concrete, visually or mentally. You must let your mind drift, drift; only then you can use the force. You have to enter to a state in which you act on what you sense, not on what you think beforehand. You must cease cognition, relax, stop thinking... let yourself drift... free... free...

You must try to divorce your actions from conscious control. Try not to focus on anything concrete, visually or mentally. You must let your mind drift, drift; only then can you use the force. You have to enter a state in which you act on what you sense, not on what you think beforehand. You must cease cogitation, relax, stop thinking Ã¢â'¬Â¦ let yourself drift Ã¢â'¬Â¦ free Ã¢â'¬Â¦ free Ã¢â'¬Â¦

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast the less he knows it.

To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.

Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do otherwise. To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction.