Quotes About Instinct

I make up my mind about whether I can trust someone within 60 seconds of meeting them

I remember being really young and having this voice inside that told me to trust my gut. And my gut has been really, really strong in my life. It's pretty vocal and it leads me.

You have to trust your body to take care of you.

Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.

Always trust your gut instinct. There will come a time when you will understand, but for now trust God has a plan greater than you have ever imagined.

If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. Trust your intuition and don't ask "why", just say no.

Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar.

A thing's innate disposition does not lie.

In fact, his adult brain acted like his adolescent brain used to. It stopped functioning. All it wanted to do was wrap itself around the owner of that scent and purr. The cat in him wanted to stretch out his body and rub his face into that scent. He'd been right. She was here.

I'm the top of the food chain and well...you're the food.

Titus's jaw dropped. 'Those caravanists, they were mages?' 'They most certainly were.' 'But one fainted and two reached for their rifles when they saw the sand wyvern.' 'It's a good policy for at least one member of the group to pretend to fall unconscious at a mage sighting. And I always think the rifles are a touch of genius - any time you see someone holding a firearm, your instinct is to dismiss that person as a nonmage.

Though everyone may yearn for a tranquil death, the basic instinct to stay alive is a far more powerful force

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

Here and there a man respected the operator. Instinctively the man felt in him a glowing resentment of something he had not the courage to resent.

In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers

If you observe a baby, you'll quickly see that we are born knowing what we like and don't like, when we're hungry, tired, or need connection. We know ourselves quite well at birth, and it's only as a result of well-meaning parents, teachers, doctors, other adults, and caregivers that our innate self-trust is damaged.

We adapted to being at war, just as we had adapted to the chaos and upheaval of revolution. How amazing and yet tragic it is, I thought, the human instinct for

How come no one tells a rabbit to settle down? It's completely kosher for all of you to "fuck like bunnies" – in fact, it's part of the job description.

Speak, roofless Nature, your instinctive words; And let me learn your secret from the sky, Following a flock of steadfast-journeying birds In lone remote migration beating by. December stillness, crossed by twilight roads, Teach me to travel far and bear my loads.

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

The goal of all life is death.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

Like Gabriela, she liked animals because they behaved in a natural way; if they were hungry they ate nonstop, if they were thirsty they drank until they were full, if they were in heat they made love desperately, if they were tired they slept at any hour of the day, if they were furious they bit or scratched or killed their enemy. It is true is that they also died and that dying is ridiculous, but they were so meticulous, so precise.