Quotes About Instinct

The ripe apple falls, it doesn't know what else to do.

Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.

I have evolved my game to be quick, to know what to do when the ball comes to me.

Decisions need to be made in milliseconds out on the field, and you need to almost know what the other guy is thinking and exactly what he's going to do.

I just want to be an artist that makes exactly what he feels.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

Leadership is something I was born with.

I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.

My playing is all about feel. I'm completely self taught: I never took any lessons or anything.

I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.

Logic is no answer to passion.

Love is not an emotion; it is a drive.

I feel like I'm good with girls. I understand them and am good at loving them. I've always felt like that's been natural for me.

When it comes to making decisions, I'm not what you'd call a numbers guy.

You have an instinct, Sophie, that's how, said Howl. Nothing is safe from you. If I were to court a girl who lived on an iceberg in the middle of the ocean, sooner or later—probably sooner—I'd look up to see you swooping overhead on a broomstick. In fact, by now I'd be disappointed in you if I didn't see you.

Tienes un instinto especial, Sophie —continuó Howl—. Contigo nada está a salvo. Si decidiera cortejar a una doncella que viviera en un iceberg en el medio del océano, antes o después, probablemente antes, levantaría la vista y te vería volando por allí en una escoba. De hecho, me llevaría una decepción si no fuera así.

Antonina felt convinced that people needed to connect more with their animal nature, but also that animals long for human company, reach out for human attention.

Why was it, she asked herself, that animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast?

Why was it, she asked herself, that animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast?

Reason said it was wasn't long enough. Instinct said it was.

It isn't necessary to speculate about the driving force within us, it leaps out and reveals itself. Under pressure, it can't be hidden

Impulses like that, I answered myself, that seemed to come from nowhere, they weren't really impulses at all, they were decisions already made but waiting for an opportunity to be spoken aloud.

When times are bad, people feel compelled to overeat.