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Quotes About Instinct

My feeling is, we ran from animals for three million years. It's our time now. If a cow could eat you, it would. And it wouldn't care how comfortable your truck ride over was, either.
~ Greg Proops
He works on instinct, Agent Travers." "Does instinct include touching evidence without gloves? And looking like Charlie Manson on crack?" "Sometimes. Perhaps. I don't think one really knows.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
He was best known, however, for his instinct. Jade had instinct like a tiger on the prowl; it seemed to come from the very blood running in his veins.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.
~ Gregory Bateson
As long as they have the wish to kill, they will not lose the lust to procreate.
~ Guido Ceronetti
Solo sé que un buen líder es aquel que no tiene miedo a las consecuencias de sus decisiones, y que toma el paso que le dicta su intuición, pase lo que pase.
~ Guillem Balagué
Dogs and wolves are the same, except for one difference: dogs live at home, food and water are provided and they sleep in their owner's bed. Wolves, meanwhile, live on mountains, have to find their own food and somewhere to kip . . . I want a team full of hungry and ambitious wolves.' (Boza Maljkovic)
~ Guillem Balagué
De las veinte decisiones que tomo cada día, dieciocho son intuitivas, a partir de la observación.
~ Guillem Balagué
The senior players, meanwhile, understood perfectly well, and as one recognised: 'He always used us as an example, but he was always fair with us and everyone else.' Pep was finding solutions to the team's problems, relying on instinct and experience to motivate, inspire and get the best out of the youngsters.
~ Guillem Balagué
Matar a alguien no deja indiferente a nadie. A nadie. No se mata a sangre fría, como piensan los que no han matado. Se mata a sangre caliente. Un avispero recorre las venas de quien asesina. Se siente en el dedo que va a jalar el gatillo. Un aguijoneo que provoca un golpe de sangre en el cerebro.
~ Guillermo Arriaga
No se mata a sangre fría, como piensan los que no han matado. Se mata a sangre caliente. Un avispero recorre las venas de quien asesina.
~ Guillermo Arriaga
Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.
~ Guillermo del Toro
It's a chicken instinct. He's here for a reason. It's time to step in, face Deus Brânquia, force Hoffstetler's experiments to completion. No, not Deus Brânquia. The asset, that's all it is. Why has he started thinking of it as Deus Brânquia again? He's got to stop that. The good old Alabama Howdy-do, the heavy-duty Farm-Master 30 cattle prod, is long and straight in his palm, a handrail guiding him from an opiate haze back into the real world.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian—that is, a creature acting by instinct.
~ Gustave Le Bon
Notwithstanding all its progress, philosophy has been unable as yet to offer the masses any ideal that can charm them; but, as they must have their illusions at all cost, they turn instinctively, as the insect seeks the light, to the rhetoricians who accord them what they want. Not truth, but error has always been the chief factor in the evolution of nations,
~ Gustave Le Bon
by the mere fact that he forms part of an organised crowd, a man descends several rungs in the ladder of civilisation. Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian—that is, a creature acting by instinct.
~ Gustave Le Bon
Bütün eylemlerimizde bilinç d???n?n pay? büyük.
~ Gustave Le Bon
Ak?l yürütmeye al??k?n olmayan kitleler, eyleme geçme konusunda oldukça h?zl?d?r.
~ Gustave Le Bon
Why should color, of all things, be at the center of so much crossfire? Perhaps because in meddling with such a deep and seemingly instinctive area of perception, culture camouflages itself as nature more successfully there than in any other area of language. There is nothing remotely abstract, theoretical, philosophical, hypothetical, or any other -cal, so it seems, about the difference between yellow and red or between green and blue.
~ Guy Deutscher
ultimately, what common sense finds natural is what it is familiar with.
~ Guy Deutscher
If you want to do something and you feel in your bones that it's the right thing to do, do it. Intuition is often as important as the facts. 663
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
I moved fast and had Victoria's head between my jaws before she had a chance to dodge. We spun around in the kitchen, the mouse's head in the cat's mouth, and the cat's head in mine.
~ James Herbert
The hell with the toilet paper. I'm grabbing the the Steaks. I can always wash my ass, I'm feeding my ass.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble.
~ James Howe