Quotes About Instinct

Although they often kill out of season or at night, they usually eat what they kill. I admire them, and so I feel a flicker of distaste for this outsider.

Call it a hunch; and hunches don't just materialise, you pay for them with hard-earned experience. No such thing as a free hunch.

On a piece of paper, write down the formula for our human reaction: S-P-R This stands for Stimulus—Pause—Response.

With tybo men there isn't much difference between fucking and killing.

The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think.

The psychologist Robert Zajonc argued that the way we feel about something, rather than coming on the heels of cognition—that is, "before I can like something, I must have some knowledge about it"—actually accompanies and may even precede it.

Gut feelings help us filter the world, and what is taste, really, but a kind of cognitive mechanism for managing sensory overload? But

We are all just monkeys with money and guns.

It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.

Now I understand why some species eat their young.

The unexpected but dependable law that functions in most artistic endeavors: namely that the pursuit of excellence has an even stronger instinctual draw than the need for emotional self-preservation.

Why aren't people afraid of their dogs? How long can what was once a wild animal deny its wildness?

This is a matter of feeling,' said Misabel. 'And such things can never be explained.

Clearly, when it comes to love, there is no reasoning it out, you just have to do as your heart compels you,

Constance wrapped her arms tightly around her knees and hissed like an angry cat.

When we sense danger, we will instinctively react with a fight, flight, or freeze response. Not a lot of thought goes into this response. The body just naturally does its thing.

Clay cared about his real brothers and sisters, too, although he'd only just met them. He felt instinctively like they were extensions of his own claws and wings. This was the family he'd always wanted.

no known natural weapons

Peril came to because her body decided not to drown.

for Captain Aubrey, as for the rest of brute creation, there were only two kinds of birds, the edible and the inedible.

Ululation. We got animals inside of us, man. We've got all this power. - "The Son

High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.' - John Cleese

The word paradise came out of my mouth, without thinking.

Men act as if we just crawled from the swamp, our webbed feet dripping brackish water as we waddle ashore, seeking to mate with a female or, lacking that, a warm patch of mud.