Quotes About Instinct

go in the direction your head is pointed in.

and yet wasn't there something about [vampires] that struck a deep chord of recognition, even of memory? The teeth, the blood, the hunger, the immortal union with darkness -- what if these things weren't fantasy but recollection or even instinct, a feeling etched over eons into human DNA, of some dark power that lay within the human animal?

Hunger is a reliable feeling; it had a simplicity love or grief did not.

They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.

The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal — it's also the reason they hate birds.

In the end, having no compass for his desires, he yielded to his nature.

Animal smell is beyond philosophy.

There are some things a woman can just tell.

what is amazing in nature is that the female, because of their role to protect their young and to protect their family or social group, are the ones with the keener sense of awareness. Yet this is the opposite with humans where the females are less aware of danger and less able to personally defend and protect themselves as well as their young. - Raising A Strong Daughter: What Fathers Should Know by Finlay Gow JD and Kailin Gow MA

Why everything that's supposed to be bad/Make me feel so good?

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

Intuition is a strong feminine quality.

A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula.

Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling.

I have to follow my instinct and intuition and curiosity.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I make all my decisions on intuition.

All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.

I've got good intuition.

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

I completely work on the basis of my intuition. I don't think I premeditate a success formula. There is no formula to make a successful film.

My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.