Quotes About Instinct

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Just as physical pain tells us to get our hands out of the fire, our fear tells us—once we've been burned—to be cautious about fire the next time around. The fight-or-flight response that

Fear is a good emotion to cultivate; it keeps you alert. Without it few survive.

Q didn't believe, as some people did, that the squirrels would remember where they buried each walnut. He

The joy of expiration is as natural as the joy of loving, the joy of killing, the joy of being.

We're all animals, you know? We do what we think is right.

You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.

Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.

What is inspired comes already arranged beforehand and there is very little to be done by the brain and by the mind.

Humans no longer eat merely to satisfy energetic requirements, any more than we have sex just to make babies.

Even though it is logically obvious that we must accept equilibrium, we are not built to be satisfied with it because being unsatisfied has been an excellent strategy for the last several billion years.

Wildlife is just that --- wild life.

Trust what feels right to you, let go of the rest.

She must heed her intuition without demanding that it serve her and without worrying that it would fail.

To develop your intuition, you need to respect it as a natural intelligence.

Learning to locate your own gut response is essential if you are to be able to identify and acknowledge your intuition.

Belief is the basis of intuitive behavior.

Instead of vacillating, we need to value, acknowledge and trust our intuition for what it is, a sense of truth.

Intuition is a gift, an inner power that you can turn to whenever you need it.

Our heart chooses for us, or a tiny whisper inside that is too faint for us to hear.

Wildlife can absorb adversity that would destroy a human without a blink.

And there we were in the Croc Pools: a herd of elephants, two crocodiles, a dog, and a sweaty group of men united by the most basic instinct of all—

Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a man to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on ... But you've got to begin ... You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!

With the thermometer at 30 below zero and the wind behind him, a man walking on Main Street in Winnipeg knows which side of him is which.