Quotes About Instinct

We make decisions based on what we feel in the moment.

I would love to have children, as I am such a mommy. I have always been like that.

We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.

Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace.

I'm not looking for any particular genre or role because I will pick up a role based on my mood and instinct.

I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.

I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

I think motherhood is just about instinct.

Mothers can do anything. They have ways of finding out if you have eaten or not.

este evident ca atat omul, cat si Zeii, oriunde dispun de putere si-o exercita dintr-un invincibil impuls al firii. si voi, ca toti ceilalti, ati actiona exact ca noi, daca ati avea o putere egala cu a noastra.

We'll start a whole new human race," Hoop quipped. "With respect, Hoop, I believe Ripley would eat you alive.

They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice barely restrained, the instinct to run or freeze or hide, and in many respects this was the heaviest burden of all, for it could never be put down, it required perfect balance and perfect posture

I believe that the world is full of danger I want to protect you from it Only because inside me is the same impulse as that danger

You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to chase down a fly to get rid of it—you just darken the room, leave a crack of light in a window, and out he goes. Works every time. We all have that instinct, that aspiration. Science can't—what was your word? dim?—science can't dim that. All science can do is turn out the false lights so the true light can get us home.

Trust your intuition, rather than technology, to protect you from violence.

drinking water from streams like animals

humble rabbit, cornered by a fox, has nothing to lose by striking out, and rabbits have teeth, and sometimes the rabbit gets lucky.

In his heart of hearts, Jack London knew that we can never build a fire. Not when we really need to.

The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.

Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

For them not to have fucked then and there would have required such a reversal of the laws of nature as to cause Newton to spin in his coffin and NASA to discontinue the space program.

To the domesticated, nomads were an unwelcome reminder of instinct suppressed, liberty compromised, and control unimplemented.

Maybe there is no proper way to react to the inner animal's tunes but dance to them.)

When civilized people dance they reconnect with their old animal nature. It reminds them that they aren't mechanical chess pieces or rooted trees, but free-flowing meat waves of possibility.