Quotes About Instinct

The instinct to improve oneself materially is necessary for growth. It is at the fountain of the enterprising spirit which drives private enterprise.

Pre-meditation can form in split seconds.

Especially as a goalkeeper, when you are closed down, you have to make a decision in a split second, and sometimes it is better to make the wrong one rather than wait and see what's happening.

Real people have trouble balancing their checkbooks, much less calculating how much they need to save for retirement; they sometimes binge on food, drink, or high-definition televisions. They are more like Homer Simpson than Mr. Spock.

As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.

Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.

Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart.

When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with their own equipment and they need something else to shoot.

That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.

The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.

Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.