Quotes About Instinct

The profoundest instinct in man is to war against the truth; that is, against the Real.

Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN

in the arts of covertcy, it is death to second-guess oneself.

It went well enough at first. One need not be able to name a danger to sense and avoid it.

That same feather of foreboding brushed along my spine, making me shiver.

When you have become quite wild, then perhaps one of the wild things will come to take a look at you, and one of them may take a fancy to you, not because you are suffering and cold, but simply because he happens to like your looks. When this happens, the wandering is over, and the Indian becomes a Shaman.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the life you have, you won't live some other life. You won't live any life at all.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all. That's the only advice you can give anybody. And it's not advice. It's an observation.

She was like a wild animal who didn't know whether to come to the outstretched hand or to flee and kept making startled little rushes, first in one direction and then in the other.

if you find yourself bogged down in elaborate columns of pros and cons, just randomly pick a decision and observe how you react. If you feel relief, then you probably made the right decision. If, on the other hand, you feel uneasy or tense—a "gnawing" in your stomach—then you probably made the wrong choice.

Sex and violence ... are the two great engines of the world.

Lust is pressing, something must be done about it.

It's amputate or die. Simple. And when it comes down to it, you can't die. Not yet. Once you're born, you are obligated to survive. At all costs.

Follow your heart. Indulge your whims. They are usually correct. And when they are not, do not allow the world to judge you overly much.

If you have an intuition of something but no hard evidence to back it up, you might kind of sort of go about putting that intuition into practice, because there's still some uncertainty if it's right or wrong.

In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

I will take ownership of the nutmeg. My uncle Okocha has got the skills but the nutmeg, the prince title they call me for that, I will say it is my ownership. It happens instinctively, sometimes the easiest way of getting past my opponent.

Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.

I'm a firm believer in your gut being undefeated.

Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.