Quotes About Instinct

Every creature has a survival instinct. It looks like fear but it's not the same thing. Fear isn't the desire to avoid death or pain. Fear is rooted in the knowledge that what you recognize as yourself can cease to exist. Fear is existential.

Trust your weapon, it is almost certainly smarter than you are. Remember this and you may yet live.

A fourth part of his brain was saying, This is the part where you run and scream a lot. He was listening to the fourth part.

Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.

He's eating God the way a bear eats meat against the winter.

Bleedin' like a son-of-a-bitch, he said. Well, I can stop that. He urinated on the ground, picked up a handful of the resulting mud, and plastered it over the wound.

Almost instinctively he went about learning the truth and at the same time disbelieved it.

Oare noi actionam ca urmare a gandirii, sau simtirea este aceea care stimuleaza actiunea, si numai uneori gandirea devine motorul actiunii?

Netikiu už poj??i? ribos egzistuojan?ia nuojauta, žaibu, vandeniline bomba ar net tokiais daiktais kaip žibut?s, žuv? pulkai, bet žinau, kad jie egzistuoja. Netikiu šm?klomis, nors esu j? mat?s.

Ayn Rand brings the best and the worst animal instinct out in humans. Well, excuse me, I aspire to be further evolved ethically than that. I really believe that Ayn Rand is the Marilyn Monroe of philosophy--all seduction, little substance.

The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is designed to do this, and the impact is only the beginning.

Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.

Trusting is part of our higher nature. Doubting is a lower instinct. The latter is easy to do, the former more difficult—but so much more rewarding.

What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer?

Faith is a certitude without proofs ... a sentiment for it is a hope it is an instinct for it precedes all outward instruction.

Love is what we were borne with. Fear is what we learned here.

The beach is in our blood. Everyone in our family returns to the beach instinctively, just like the sea turtles.

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

I believe that we are always attracted to what we need most an instinct leading us towards the persons who are to open new vistas in our lives and fill them with new knowledge.

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever. They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

Never tease anything that wants to eat you." Reign of Blood

The shadow acts on instinct, not reason.

I only believed in three things: my right fist, my left fist, and my gut.

I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it.