Quotes About Instinct

The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.

Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain't no monkey but I know what I like.

He did not want to be derailed by forethought.

He puts natural predators at the table," Priebus said later. "Not just rivals—predators.

when you put a snake and a rat and a falcon and a rabbit and a shark and a seal in a zoo without walls, things start getting nasty and bloody. That's what happens.

Just play it by ear," Bannon said. "We'll figure it out." That was the Trump way. Playing by ear, acting on impulse. Pure Trump.

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

when you go down a dark alley and you feel that tingling across the back of your neck, that's not just a bad feeling, that's a biological gift from God - the Gift of Fear...when you ignore that gift - when you go down the dark alley and say, Y'know, I'm sure it'll be okay - that's when you find real pain.

In Grossman's mind, there were just three categories of human beings—sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves.

La desazón es un instinto y un modo de advertencia.

Their behaviour tells me what they are thinking. Generally it runs along the lines of: Is this food? Is this? What about this? This might be food. I am almost certain that this is. Or occasionally: It is raining. I do not like it.

Birds are not difficult to understand. Their behaviour tells me what they are thinking. Generally it runs along the lines of: Is this food? Is this? What about this? This might be food. I am almost certain that this is. Or occasionally: It is raining. I do not like it. While ample for a brief neighbourly

All my life I have had my best experiences when I have responded to material with my heart before my mind.

Birds fascinated her. How did they do that, seeming to fly with one mind, each of them able to anticipate what the others would do?

When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

They have the instinct to hunt and fly," Nancy told me, "but how to hunt, they learn. It's as if there's some file folder in their heads about hunting success that they learn and never forget.

How tired she must be, I thought, after her rich, full life—a life lived between worlds. She had known the sea's wild embrace; she had mastered the art of camouflage; she had learned the taste of our skin and the shapes of our faces; she had instinctively remembered how her ancestors wove eggs into chains. She had served as an ambassador for her kind to tens of thousands of aquarium visitors. What an odyssey she had lived.

He didn't see in himself what I saw— a generous soul who wanted so much to belong to something greater than himself. He didn't recognize what a miracle he was. When he didn't know what to do in a given situation, he let instinct and his heart take over. Despite all he'd been through, he had such an amazing capacity to feel and to love. He'd saved me, in so many ways. I was going to do whatever needed to be done to save him, too.

Men glanced his way and altered course some, instinctively recognizing and alpha male at rest.

Think with your other brain

People will make assumptions, my mother in particular. She's already scenting your bachelor blood in the water.

He could almost have been an American, he was so tan and had such good teeth, but I could tell straight away that he wasn't. He had what no American man I've ever met has had, and that's intuition.

He had what no American man I've ever met has had, and that's intuition.

Almost, I think, the unreasoning, bestial purity was best.