Quotes About Instinct

My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

I don't have to be logical - I'm a mother.

Fear, she's the mother of violence.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.

I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.

I suspect that hunger was my mother.

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

It's not hard to draw from within yourself to play someone protective of her daughter. I have animals and I'm a daughter, sister, wife, aunt and friend, and I can be fiercely protective.

What least makes a mother is biology.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.

I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect.

Only do what your heart tells you.

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.

We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.

You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

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

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.

I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar taste and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.