Quotes About Instinct

Her reason partly agreed, her instinct wholly rebelled.

Ou a mulher é fria ou morde. Sem dentada não há amor possível.

A thousand "tells" were broadcast every minute: a tic, a wince, a smell, a shadow, a draft, a flick of the hand, a door ajar. The human senses experienced them all. The human brain registered them. The human monkey mind, clamoring with the shouting littles of life, was lucky if it recognized one or two. The message from the gestalt trickled down in intuition, gut feelings, geese walking on one's grave, deja vu.

Everything, that can be seen, touched, explained, argued over, is to the imaginative man nothing more than a means, for he functions, by reason of his controlled imagination, in the deep of himself where every idea exists in itself and not in relation to something else. In him there is no need for the restraints of reason, for the only restraint he can obey is the mysterious instinct that teaches him to eliminate all moods other than the mood of fulfilled desire.

Making a shape out of mess, as Jack put it; the instinct in us all, something deeply human and fearful. Glancing

You don't know what you're going to do in a crisis," said Frieda. "Until it happens.

The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again.

What looks like instinct is hard-won skill. Those changes in the brain don't happen through passive observation. They're generated through repeated confrontations with the unexpected.

It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!

It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!

Men have a fight-or-flight response, they say. For women, it's fight or flight, or freeze. Because in the face of overpowering physical strength, our overriding instinct is to survive, to not die here. I went numb, suspending my consciousness. It was a technique I had perfected as a child during beatings.

For a cat is just a cat, and cannot change its nature.

The butcher bird makes its noise And asks you to agree With its brutal nesting habits And its pointless savagery Now, the nightingale sings to you And raises up the ante I put one hand on your round ripe heart And the other down your panties

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

When we gaze into the adoring eyes of a canine companion, we're staring at the carefully muted and shaped soul of a wolf.

If nothing else, wolves are masters at decoding intentions.

something: scenario x is responded to by action y. Everyone learns it and then practices it until responses are almost instinctive. It's all part of the "train hard, fight easy" philosophy that's central to military life—though veterans of the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan smile

Complacency's like a disease to wild things.

Showing off her best points was a habit that saved her life more than once.

Cei called more taunts, but she was smelling the wind and no longer listening.

Gebildet ist der Mensch, der die höchsten Ergebnisse des Geistes in physiologische Reflexe umformt.

When we suspect the extent of the innate, we realize that pedagogy is the technique of what is secondary. We only learn what we were born to know.

Good taste that has been learned ends up being of worse taste than spontaneous bad taste.

Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking