Quotes About Instinct

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

We were born to run; we were born because we run.

You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else…We were born to run; we were born because we run

Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else.

You've got this fancy machine, and it's controlled by a pilot who's thinking, 'Okay, how can I run this baby without using any fuel?' You and I know how good running feels because we've made a habit of it." But lose the habit, and the loudest voice in your ear is your ancient survival instinct urging you to relax.

Darwin's great gift to science was simplifying all life to pure mathematics: your one and only goal on earth is multiplication. Everything you do, every instinct you have, is an evolutionary urge to make babies and leave behind as many copies of yourself as possible. From that perspective, heroism makes no sense. Why risk the grave for someone else if there's no guarantee of a biological payoff? Dying for your own kids: smart. Dying for a rival's? Genetic suicide.

slova p?ipisovaná Rogeru Bannisterovi... :"Každý den ráno se v Africe probudí gazela a ví, že musí b?žet rychleji než nejrychlejší lev, jinak zahyne. Každé ráno se v Africe probudí lev a ví, že musí b?hat rychleji než nejpomalejší gazela, jinak bude mít hlad. Je jedno, jestli jste lev nebo gazela - jakmile vyjde slunce, m?li byste utíkat.

Once you learn to think like another creature, you can anticipate what it will do and react before it ever acts. If that sounds a little Hollywood, then you've seen your share of movies about impossibly clairvoyant FBI profilers who can "see with the eyes of the killer." But out there on the Kalahari plains, mind-throwing was a very real and potentially deadly talent.

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up," Bannister said. "It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle— when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

Wilson called those forces the biophilia hypothesis, which literally means "love of living things" but translates more closely to "Your brain may not remember, but your body will never forget that animals have guarded us since the Stone Age." Why

Vigil no acababa de dar en el clavo, pero su instinto le decía que había algún tipo de conexión entre la capacidad de amar y la capacidad de amar correr.

Todas as manhãs em África acorda uma gazela. Há-de saber que tem de ser mais veloz do que o mais rápido dos leões ou vai ser morta. Todas as manhãs em África acorda um leão. Há-de saber que tem de ser mais veloz do que a gazela mais lenta ou morre à fome. Não interessa se és um leão ou uma gazela - quando nasce o sol, o melhor é correres.

So simple," he said. "Just move your legs. Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

Y como todo lo demás que amamos en esta vida -todo aquello que, sentimentalmente, llamamos nuestras "pasiones" y "deseos"-, es realmente una necesidad ancestral codificada. Todos nacimos para correr; todos nacimos porque podemos correr. Todos somos La Gente que Corre, como siempre han sabido los tarahumaras.

de la misma forma que alzamos los brazos automáticamente cuando resbalamos sobre hielo, las piernas y pies instintivamente caen con más fuerza cuando perciben una superficie blanda. Cuando corremos con zapatillas con protección, los pies van a través de las suelas en busca de una superficie dura, estable. «Llegamos

One of the first and most important lessons he learned from the Tarahumara was the ability to break into a run anytime, the way a wolf would if it suddenly sniffed a hare.

You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running or you wouldn't live to love anything else.

if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.

Having a little pee in your pants had to be better than being dinner for some redneck.

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.

There's two things in this world you can't frighten. A hungry dog or an angry woman.