Quotes About Instinct

In the fast zombie stories, it's not our humanity that is at stake anymore. It's our survival.

That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary.

I'm the kind of guy who, if I look inside and they throw me a fastball outside, and it's a strike, I'm going to swing. Everything in the strike zone, I'm going to swing. Doesn't matter if it's a fastball, changeup, breaking ball. If it's in the strike zone and it's something you like, you've got to swing.

You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

No matter how much you feed a wolf, he will always return to the forest.

In action, be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

If called by a panther Don't anther.

No animal admires another animal.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

If you think too long, you think wrong.

Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Man is a gaming animal.

It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.

Custom is second nature, and no less powerful.

All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn-the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.