Quotes About Instinct

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.

But my instinct as a football player is always to try and grow and try and improve and I think I can do this by joining a big club such as Manchester City.

Knowing what jokes will work is second nature; you just feel it.

We don't know what we'd do. Nobody knows what accident of fate or DNA or character will determine how we act when the shit hits the fan.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

It Is The Wisdom Of Crocodiles, That Shed Tears When They Would Devour

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure, it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

Most human beings, in other words, would rather fight than starve.19

you come to rely, more than anything else, on first sight. You walk into the room and you think, sick or not sick. Not sick goes home as fast as possible. Sick, you watch. You draw blood, you order X rays, you give them fluids. You are careful, because a little bell went off in your head when you walked into the room and saw them.

You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, "Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep."

Mir scheint, mein Magen hat Beine.

Culture is nothing but a set of successful patterns of behaviour grounded in our struggle to survive.

Emotions help us navigate a complex world that we don't fully comprehend. They are our body's way of ensuring that we do what is best for us.

One can train dolphins to jump synchronously because they do so in the wild, and one can teach horses to run together at the same pace because wild horses do the same.

Emotions often know better than we do what is good for us, even though not everyone is prepared to listen.

The eyeless tick climbs onto a grass stem to await the smell of butyric acid emanating from mammalian skin. Since experiments have shown that this arachnid can go for eighteen years without food, the tick has ample time to meet a mammal, drop onto her victim, and gorge herself on warm blood. Afterward she is ready to lay her eggs and die.

Animals should be given a chance to express their natural behavior.

an insuppressible power drive,

Animals learn what they need to learn and have specialized ways of sifting through the massive information around them. They actively seek, collect, and store information. (p. 270)

A species's cognition is generally as good as what it needs for its survival.

There is no single form of cognition, and there is no point in ranking cognitions from simple to complex. A species's cognition is generally as good as what it needs for its survival. (p. 200)

First, the behavior should not follow directly from present needs and desires. Second, it should prepare the individual for a future situation in a different context than the current one. The girl needed a spoon not in bed, but at the chocolate pudding party she expected in her dream.11

He prefers to point with a stick and will go out of his way to bring one with him, thus anticipating our test and his self-invented need for a tool. But