Quotes About Instinct

It's my favorite, when you see those auditions that you're just like, 'That's the guy.'

A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.

I don't actually like dogs smelling of anything other than natural dogs.

As an actor, I trust my ear.

Film is like eating to me. It feels completely natural.

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.

It's in my DNA to fight and entertain.

I believe that there is a direct parallel between the condition of your body and the condition of your brain. When you release the stiffness in your body, you are also creating flexibility in your brain. You become the instinctive, spontaneous healer of your own body and mind.

It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.

It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning.

Well, we're grasping for two things at once. Partly for communion with others that's the deepest instinct in us. And partly, we're seeking security. By constant communion with others we hope we shall be able to accept the horrible fact of our total solitude. We're always reaching out for new projects, new structure, new systems in order to abolish partly or wholly our insight into our loneliness. If it weren't so, religious systems would never arise.

This book, by Steven Pinker, is entitled THE BLANK SLATE: THE MODERN DENIAL OF HUMAN NATURE, and which, as the title unambiguously indicates, is a rather thundering broadside fired into the direction of the blank slate establishment. He is Professor of Psychology at MIT, has received many awards for his teaching, and for his earlier books HOW THE MIND WORKS, and THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT.

Furthermore, whether instinct, response, or impulse, none of them can be random or just flopping about. Otherwise, life forms that have them would quickly be reduced to a pulsating mess. Thus, some kind of "organizing intelligence" is implicit, and which, by all available clues, is energetic.

You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

You try to be selfish because you're afraid of letting anyone too near. To guard themselves is the way of people whose instinct is to nurture and protect. - Kadar den Arnaud

To guard themselves is the way of people whose instinct is to nurture and protect.

To act out of desperation is to act out of instinct. To let oneself get to that point however, is to ignore self-preservation.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite,For God hath made them so.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, ?For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, ?For 'tis their nature too. But, children, you should never let ?Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made ?To tear each other's eyes.

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will be my moment again, perhaps once again I shall understand nothing, I shall grasp that other knowledge, found and lost in an instant.

It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at them ...