Quotes About Instinct

I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.

Over the years, you get better at timing because you've been through the situations thousands of times. The ball goes over your head; he passes you on the right, left. Eventually, you just know what you have to do.

Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.

Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival.

The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.

I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.

To be honest, my first instinct when I heard about the 'Greendale' project was that it was a licensing thing. As I learned more about the project, I saw how pure it was.

I never had any thought behind anything I did in the beginning, to be honest.

To be honest with you, the forest resonates with me more, like instinctually, than the sea does.

My instinct is to be honest and make fun of things.

By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ.

In the jungle, I can kill and eat a poisonous snake to survive. But on Bigg Boss' I'd be chewed alive by those man-eaters.

We are descended from people who paid attention to dangerous things in the environment. People who didn't pay attention to dangerous things in the environment didn't get to survive and to breed.

You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

Just like an animal, when you want to survive, you don't think anymore.

Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

My first instinct is always to fight back because ever since I was a kid, that's what I've always had to do to survive.

From childhood on, both males and females learn to do whatever we need to do to get the attention we need to survive. We fashion ourselves accordingly. And then, should that attention ever go away, it's only natural to do the same things we've always done, rely on what we've always relied on, in order to make it come back.

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.

It didn't feel like sex. It felt like the absolute necessity to mate, lion with lioness, an affirmation of life.

You're going to eat him alive and never even notice.

How easily we read each other when we're out for blood.

She was messing with you, Jason. Taking advantage." "Yeah, kids are like predators. They sense weakness and pounce.