Quotes About Instinct

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Playing and giving are closely related, they are the behavioral and transactional facets of the same impulse, the play-instinct. They share an aristocratic disdain for results.

Le jeu et le don sont étroitement liés. Ils participent, mentalement et socialement, de la même impulsion individuelle et générique : l'instinct ludique. Le jeu et le don partagent le même hautain dédain pour le résultat.

Bucko allowed me to go with my first instinct on the ice: never get rid of the puck when you can control it. Hold on to it, and let the play open up in front of you. And again, it keeps coming back to those days on outdoor rinks or rivers or bays, where we simply skated and handled the puck for hours on end. That training allowed me to do the things I did as a player, and my coaches in turn allowed those skills to develop.

Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in the confusion. But you don't see the full picture. That's the point. That's what faith is. You can't see it. It comes back to instinct. Faith is just up the street. Faith and instinct, you can't just rely on them. You have to beat them up. You have to pummel them to make sure they can withstand it, to make sure they can be trusted.

But, alas, that was crap. She'd been had by a con man—simple as that. His modesty had been a way to cover up his true self. Call it instinct or women's intuition or going with your gut—whenever Wendy had done that, she had been wrong. "I

a primitive, inner warning trill that you cannot quite explain. Modern man, more afraid of embarrassment sometimes than safety, often ignores it at his own peril. Melon

The pretty blond girl said, "Good evening, Mr. Sutton!" They were both clean-cut and smiling and neatly dressed, and for some reason, a reason Harry couldn't put his finger on—a reason that he'd soon learn was primitive and instinctive and absolutely correct—Harry felt more fear than he'd ever felt in his life.

if you are deluded and narcissistic enough to believe you should obey your gut rather than looking coldly at the facts

When you listen to your gut, you are often just fooled with greater certainty.

A dozen thoughts hit me all at once. The biggest was a one-word command: RUN! I had watched the horror movies, the ones where the mentally malnourished airhead goes into the house alone, sneaking around like, well, like me, and then ends up with an ax between the eyes. From the safety of my seat in the cineplex, I had scoffed at their idiocy and now, here I was, in Bat Lady's lair, and someone else was here, in the basement. Why

your child comes to you hardwired, that in the battle of nature vs nurture, nature kicks complete and total ass

Later, Simon would claim he felt the danger before it all went wrong. There may indeed be something primal in human beings, some survival mechanism from our caveman days of constant danger that lies dormant in modern man, some sixth sense or instinct that almost never needs to surface in our society, but it's still there, still potent yet latent in a deep part of our genetic makeup.

It hurt so damn much that now something primordial wouldn't let it happen again. I

My kick had landed on Bob's skull with force, jerking his head to the side. Bob's hands instinctively leapt off the steering wheel. The car veered sharply, sending Otto and me—and the gun—into a rolling heap. It was on.

There are some people you know are

I guess when you're hurt your first instinct's to hurt back.

Love whom you will but marry your own kind was a dictum amounting to instinct within her.

People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions.

They say when you can't stand it your body is its own defense, you black out and you don't feel anymore.

There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads