Quotes About Instinct

You know how the best story angles often spring from that thought you have on reading an article or watching a show - that thought you have before the responsible journalist in you comes up with something boring. I usually recommend people get in touch with their deep 'reptilian brain.'

When making a film, if I feel nothing in my body, I can't work. I have to touch. I have to feel. I never stop touching.

There were two things I discovered when I toured with Snoop. One was that the band was all jazz musicians. The second was to instil in me a respect for other styles of music. From then on, whenever I played a new kind of music, I came with the same kind of open mind. What are they trying to do? What are they hearing? How do they see music?

Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

We humans have a powerful instinct to flee from peril. It takes a special kind of courage, a deep sense of duty, and extraordinary character to overcome these impulses and - for the sake of others - to run toward the danger.

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

Indecision may come from an instinctive hunch that there's more you need to know - which means it's time to learn everything you can about the pros and cons of each option. You can continue on this track, however, only as long as you're unearthing genuinely new information.

Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place.

A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.

The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Trust your hunches... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.

You can trust the unconscious.

Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.