Quotes About Instinct

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.

I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

My instinct is probably one of the strongest assets I've got, workwise.

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

I strongly believe that many of the best decisions are made on gut instinct.

My instinct and gut guide me very strongly.

My gut is my No. 1 asset. I also like to draw from a lot of people, and I ask a lot of questions. I'll literally show my ideas to 500 different people and get their opinions, and, in the end, after digesting all their opinions, I just trust my gut.

Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

If I see someone I think is in a better position than me, it is better for me to give the ball. Now I shoot more at goal. When I was young, they sometimes said to me, 'You need to shoot more. You try to give it too much.' It is something that I learned. To try to take the best option.

There weren't many plays for me. A lot of my stats came off broken plays, or when I didn't allow the options to play out and just took the shot.

It was a sort of organic thing. I never went, 'I must be an actress.' I thought, 'I think I could do this. I think I could be good at this.' I would just get sort of hungry when I read something I thought I can do well, whether it was in books or in scripts or if I saw a certain movie. It sort of happened quite naturally.

If it doesn't feel organic to the audience, you gotta trust your gut.

For me it's a very organic process. I read the script/hear a narration and pretty much know instantly if it's something I want to be a part of or not. It's really as simple as that.

It's insanely difficult for people to accept the extent to which we are biological organisms without agency.

One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt you - and Darwin posited that it might be rooted in maternal instinct, in sacrificing yourself for your children.

I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be made. It's only something that I felt compelled to do, and it began to evolve.

I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

I've played the outfield my whole life. It's like riding a bike.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

I think overall body awareness and knowing exactly where I need to be makes a big difference. Knowing how much weight to put on each foot or where I need to put my hands are things I'm very good at. Obviously with the wrestling background those are things that come naturally.

Horror is edgier. Dark fantasy feels mushier to me. Finding the difference - it's an instinct. And they overlap a lot.

'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.

But maybe, she told herself, the squirrels had felt themselves falling and leaped to safety. The key was to know when you were falling.