Quotes About Instinct

Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.

When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.

Horses do sense things way before people.

For cats, a hound is a natural enemy. This is the order of things.

Well, no wild animal is really going to appreciate a hug, to be honest.

We are civilized human beings, but we're all animals deep down, and that creates a certain friction in all of us.

I think it's part of the DNA of human beings. We are a cooking animal. What differentiates us from all the other animals is that we cook and they don't.

I've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses.

Criminality is a basic part of human nature.

Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves.

If people are shooting at you, it's human nature to be afraid. I was afraid. I'll be quite blunt about that.

I think we're all greedy. Who do you know who says, 'I have enough! I don't need any more!'? It's part of human nature.

When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been told to abjure. That is how human nature is.

I believe that everyone collects. I think collecting is in our blood as humans.

I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by this is we don't just respond to things as we see them or feel them or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.

I think humans are migratory animals.

A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

Good art-writers break conventions, hold a few sacrosanct, innovate their own. They measure their limits by instinct, not by rote. Mostly they learn by seeing miles of art, and reading good literature in bulk. There is no substitute, for a writer, for possessing a natural ear for language; a rich vocabulary; a flair for varied sentence structures; an original opinion; some arresting ideas to share. I can teach you none of that.

It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks. What a mistake to have ever said the id.

All this time I'd thought we were strangers, and it turned out we knew each other intuitively, in our bones, in our blood. It was kind of romantic. Catastrophically romantic.

I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite.

I need to be ambushed, caught unawares, like some sort of feral love-jackal. I'm too self-conscious otherwise.

He felt like an animal limping away, some wounded buck that needed to be put down.