Quotes About Instinct

affective feelings help animals to better identify events in the world that are either biologically useful or harmful and to generate adaptive responses to many life-challenging circumstances

Get the blazes out of here before I have an attack of common sense.

If your dog doesn't like someone, you probably shouldn't either.

Another thing is that if a position doesn't feel right as soon as you put it on, don't be embarrassed to change your mind and get right out.

It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions.

Why do you breathe, eat, sleep, make love, and reproduce your kind? Because it's your function, your reason for being. There's no other reason, and none needed.

If a baby stork is not happy with the way it is being reared, it sometimes abandons its parents and wanders into another nearby nest to be fed by a new family!

Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find anything else to eat. Amazingly, they can consume up to 95% of their own bodyweight and still survive.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't--take two!

I think my body knew before my mind did. Or maybe I just refused to listen to what I knew.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is.

This, she thought inanely, is the part where I am supposed to run. Oh, and that screaming thing

Daenaira, Magnus realized, had the fighting instinct of a berserker. For her, once battle began, it didn't stop until she no longer felt threatened.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

I had learned in the last two years that the more demanding the basic needs of self-preservation grow, the closer one comes to nature.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

No one in this dogfight has any illusions: it is all instinct and training. They move like machines. But they never lose their own sense of style. Their own dance moves. They speak the same aerial language.

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.

Have the confidence to trust your gut feeling and choose your moment to act. Timing is everything

This subordination of time and place to comfort and convenience is a part of her quite unconscious and therefore unformulated theory that life is the end and that all household arrangements are means to that end. She therefore believes that things are for folks, not folks for things, and always and instinctively acts on that belief.