Quotes About Instinct

Somehow I felt better toward him, knowing that he had possessed some instinct to fight back. It was something I needed to believe - that all men possess, somewhere, the dignity to value their own lives. If only enough to scratch the arm of the one who throws you to the wolves.

Some cues -for instance, snakes, spiders, and heights- readily elicit fear in ourselves and other primates. It should not surprise us to discover that we instinctively avoid certain cues that have long been associated with such dangers as falling and dangerous animals.

In politics, the players jockey for power; in academia, they play for vanity, a far more compelling instinct that could conjure far more vindictive punishment.

Rage is fear untethered by caution.

Beauty is a genetic device: trickery that instigates competition.

Anger is a common derivative of fear.

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.

The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and the fruits of this learning process are encoded in DNA.

For me, my rule in this industry is I've got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.

I don't take very calculated decisions. I just follow my heart.

I don't really document how many calories I eat or anything like that. I try to listen to my body.

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

The story of cats is a story of meat.

I do whatever I feel like doing cause it's in my brain.

I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.

There are certain things you can't coach, you've got to watch a guy do it.

If you run from a bear, it'll chase you. And they can run fast.

Obviously, in football you can study somebody, but at the same time, once you get out there, I think there's just a natural kind of feel for where you think guys might be or where they're going to go and knowing beforehand what's going to happen. It's just like chess.

Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day.

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.

I'm a guy who doesn't know the name of the chord, but I know that it sounds good.

I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?