Quotes About Instinct

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?

You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.

To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.

It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.

Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with the fear.

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.

Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.

If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct then your life will be safe expedient and thin.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking and planning every little step, and just go in the direction your heart takes you.

The human doesnt need mental effort or even a brain to have faith. It is not an emotion. Faith is a natural state of every living being.

Believe in your instinct, trust yourself and you will find someone trustworthy to share your inner world and your secret dreams in life

Intuition is the foundation of all courage, if you choose to live a courageous life then follow it

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied