Quotes About Instinct

It isn't always easy to act on what's in your head instead of what's in your heart. And it isn't always right to. The whole trick to knowing what to do is deciding when to make yourself listen to your head, and when it's okay to just follow your feelings.

Some things you just can't fight, and sneezing is like falling in love. There's little you can do about it, and it makes you look ridiculous and sometimes makes your eyes water.

I've learned something about my own hunches: the only time they turn out to be meaningful is when I ignore them.

Why do I hate spiders? Gods, who doesn't? What a stupid question.

We have emotions for a reason; for instance, imagine pain. You have pain so that if you touch something that's hot, or if you slam your hand with a hammer, you will pull your hand away and not do that again.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!

I'd say, 90 percent of the time, I get an idea, like, within 10 seconds of somebody telling me what their whole thing is about. And usually that flash of an idea, it's what I always go with. It might change slightly, but in general, that's pretty much it. To get me to change the entire idea is pretty tough.

I kind of feel like... I have a slower instinct than most live-action directors, but I have more patience.

I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice people that were trying to do things in life that were constructive, and that's what I gravitated to instead of what I saw and what I was in.

The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.

I wouldn't want to get involved with a game that's a stinker - I can smell one of those a mile away.

Babies smell amazing, but I'm not one of these women who smell a baby and go, 'I want one.' I see a dog over the field and go, 'I want one.'

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men's adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us.

I have very heightened senses - not just my hearing but my sense of smell.

I can smell trouble miles away.

As far as I'm concerned, attraction, in its most rudimentary form, comes from the way a person naturally smells. I'd say that within the first five seconds of 'inhaling' someone, I know if there's an attraction or not. This may sound animalistic - and it is.

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.

I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.

I tend to make snap judgements about people.

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