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Quotes About Instinct

If you think too much in the music you are too late.
~ Michael Snow
For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.
~ Dennis Prager
Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.
~ Dennis Rodman
There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?
~ Ethan Coen
What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.
~ Jewel
I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big part of the action I can literally make the story sing!
~ David Raiklen
The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out.
~ Huey Newton
I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction.
~ Marco Pantani
I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.
~ Axl Rose
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.
~ C. S. Lewis
Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
~ John Dryden
It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.
~ Peter Lynch
Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.
~ Jean-Philippe Rameau
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
~ Mencius
That part of his body was simply uncontrollable, apparently functioning in accordance to a single law of nature: She existed--he got a hard-on.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
~ Robinson Jeffers
It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.
~ Ivan Pavlov
Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.
~ Rumi
Nature hates calculators.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
~ Emily Bronte
It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!
~ Vince Staples
Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.
~ David Buss
Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
~ Andrew Marvell
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
~ Ashley Montagu