Quotes About Instinct

You feel the weight of the world and you take things in and you are acting out from a place of being pushed and visceral. It's heavy. You can't be there all of the time.

Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

I cut my own hair most of the time. You just do it all by feel.

I'm not worried about what's in fashion, what's not in fashion, what are the colors of the season. I go with my gut instinct because every time I haven't it's been a mistake.

In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.

I think people should give in to what they feel like doing at the time and be a raw animal.

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

Sometimes chaos is a little easier to handle than the regular moments because your body just takes over. No time to think. Just do.

I probably thought that about most of the things I did. But you wind up in situations where you have to make decisions very quickly, and you just go for it a lot of the time.

Cats are unpredictable because they're wild and domestic at the same time. Watching a cat's behavior is like a small window into the wild.

Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.

To eat or be eaten, to escape or be takena matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man.

Açl?ktan ölmekte olan bir köpeÄŸi al?p rahata kavuÅŸturursan?z, sizi ?s?rmaz. Ä°ÅŸte insanla köpek aras?ndaki temel fark budur.

Because in my nature I have always run to pie, whilst in his nature he has always run to mystery.

One must make allowances for a parental instinct that has been starving for twenty-five or thirty years. It is famished, it is crazed with hunger by that time, and will be entirely satisfied with anything that comes handy; its taste is atrophied, it can't tell mud cat from shad. A devil born to a young couple is measurably recognizable by them as a devil before long, but a devil adopted by an old couple is an angel to them, and remains so, through thick and thin.