Quotes About Instinct

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.

Your body has this instinct to start healing and then you go back to work and it hurts even more. It's almost better to keep your body messed-up on a consistent basis.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

I immersed myself in the police work and I guess drumming wasn't even a hobby, just something my body naturally wanted to do, tapping stuff.

Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into it.

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.

I am very selfish when it comes to choosing a film. There is no strategy as such; I take up anything that gives me a kick.

I am not intellectually choosy. My choice of films reflect who I am, but it is not done with strategy and planning. I hear something and go by my intuition.

One of my strengths as a writer is that I'm a good problem-solver. I write these unthinking, ungoverned first drafts. The project for me always is to turn that instinctive stuff into pages that work.

I'll tell you what I do have: I have a good feel for ordinary people, for politics, and those are my strengths. I understand, I hope instinctively, where many of our Armed Forces come from.

You need to channel your inner dog: know when you need food and when you need rest. And if you get stressed, know when you need to go walkies.

Every choice I've ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic.

When horror films are made in times of political strife, I think they're not made with an instinct to add to the chaos but to bring shape to it.

I mean if someone you know pushes a button you're gonna strike back out.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

If an idea or opportunity strikes organically, I would do it.

Whatever strikes I need to throw, I need to let them go.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing to have that inspiration and not to overanalyze it or mess with it; you just follow it if you love what you do.

It's not that you make a psychopath. They are - more likely, they come out that way, and they show their stripes over time.

It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.