Quotes About Instinct

Pero cuando el subconsciente debe elegir entre emociones profundamente arraigadas y la lógica, casi siempre ganan las primeras.

Hardship can humble you, but it cannot break you unless you let it. Your instinct for survival will see you through if you're attuned to its frequency. Instinct will find a temporary stopgap without ever taking its sights off your larger goals. There's no greater way to hone your instincts than to overcome adversity.

Do you listen to the wolves, Seoman?" Jiriki asked. "It's hard n-not to." "They sing such fierce songs." The Sitha shook his head. "They are like your mortal kind. They sing of where they have been, and what they have seen and scented. They tell each other where the elk are running, and who has taken whom to mate, but mostly they are merely crying 'I am! Here I am!'

I'm pretty much a cat that way. Scratch my stomach, and I'll purr at you, but I'll want to gut you with my claws even more than if you'd ignored me.

Her immediate, instinctive response was to distract herself with physical pain. She wanted to go to the kitchen and get a knife and cut herself to relieve the pressure and clear her mind.

People are jackals, always willing to feed off someone else's kill.

In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.

intense stereotypies—stereotypies an animal spends hours a day doing—almost never occur in the wild

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter.

You know, sometimes, the first thing that comes to mind is the right thing, no matter how bizarre or improbable it seems," Clare said. "It could be your intuition was trying to tell you something.

Then again, wolf kids needed a wolf nanny. Or wolf manny in his case. The

Society exists to transcend itself, and the progressive force of all evolution is the poetic imagination, the teleological instinct that moves with the organic principle of all evolution, to take possession of new forms of life, new fields of consciousness.

Birdsong is a sound which most people find reassuring. There is a reason for that. Over hundreds of thousands of years we've learned that when the birds are singing, things are safe. It's when they stop you need to be worried.

Is it wrong to kill something that wants to kill you?

It's funny. Sometimes when you're passionate about something and you dedicate yourself to it completely, your actions become a reflex. Your senses become more astute and time slows down before your eyes.

Intuition is a funny thing. Sometimes it's a gut feeling, and you look around and just know something bad is about to happen. Other time, it's elusive, and later you find yourself looking back on certain events and wondering how in the world you missed all the signals.

Panic is a bad judge.

Never underestimate gut instinct.

In the second place, we are women, we belong to the constructive sex, whose whole instinct is to reserve and to foster life, to build homes in every land. In the hands of women, of wives and mothers, and I will even dare to say of sisters, daughters and spinster aunts, the health and happiness of mankind very largely is laid. Those two things, the unity of the land, the unity of our common womanhood, speak a universal language.

Sometimes we do things, without thinking, that make no sense to us until much later, and yet appear to have been prompted by the most alert part of our being.

You were rightly destined for our family, Catherine. Almost by instinct you seem to have stumbled on the old tradition by which the châtelaines of Montsalvy would go to Puy, in times of war and danger, to implore divine help and offer their most beautiful jewels to the Madonna. Go, my daughter, you think as a true Montsalvy would!

Acho que compreendo por que a ladainha exige instintivamente o cair de joelhos. A mudança de posição é o simbolo de uma mudança na voz, no que a voz vai articular, no próprio articulado. Quando chego ao ponto de tocar essa mudança, as coisas que até um segundo antes me pareciam arbitrárias enchem-se de sentido profundo, simplificam-se extraordinariamente e ao mesmo tempo se aprofundam.

hubiera querido poder estar también dentro del hormiguero para ver cómo las hormigas tiraban del gusano metiéndole las pinzas en los ojos y en la boca y tirando con todas sus fuerzas hasta meterlo del todo, hasta llevárselo a las profundidades y matarlo y comérselo.