Quotes About Instinct

Persuading your brain to become a little wilder is like trying to persuade a starving man to take a snack.

Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in the last couple of centuries did we invent industry. We are a species that has spent 99 per cent of its history as hunter-gatherers. We haven't had time for our unconscious minds and our unconscious needs to have changed. If you like, our souls have not changed, and this is true whether or not we believe that we have them.

Isn't it true, that in times of danger we strive with all our strength, and with all our hearts to protect our children?

He once said that before he was thirty, he had done everything on instinct. After thirty he began to understand why he did the things he did.

Computers are like dogs. They smell fear.

It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.

My body urges me to take advantage of the situation, but my brain (the one inside my head) keeps me in check.

I rest my hand on the small of her back as we walk up to the house. Don't ask me why I feel a need to claim her as mine. Maybe deep down I am a Neanderthal.

Our inwards knows what's best for us, trust in it.

We fall in love in favor of sexual urges.

It may be said that, so far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life—sensation, instinct, the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering on reason, and lastly, the improvable reason of Man himself—presents us with a picture of the ever-increasing dominion of mind over matter.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

You cannot love without intuition.

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

Love isn't intellectual - it's visceral.

When you fall in love, nobody has to tell you. You know what you feel.

I love nature but against my better judgment.

It's gut instinct that helps me determine how to write a story. I love the surreal because I am faced with the challenge of making the unbelievable believable. That challenge is thrilling.

A first impulse was never a crime.

How do you know when you're finished making love?

I'm a tiger when I want love, but I'm a snake if we disagree.

Management is like making love. There's heat from both sides. You have an instinct to get there. You have no idea what you're really in for, but you do it anyway.

Instinct seeks satisfaction. Love is free of all demands.