Quotes About Instinct

Human beings are just animals who will just eat and take advantage of any source of energy until it runs out, and then there'll be catastrophe.

If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me.

It's instinct: Men love to feel like they take care of you. Knowing you feel protected makes his ego grow two sizes bigger.

When I got to Activision, it was like a carnival. They had a recycling container filled with cans and a sign over it that said 'Activision Takeover Defense Fund.' Activision was making games based on passion and gut instinct. We needed to develop games based on P&L statements and what was going to sell.

If one bird foraging in a flock on the ground suddenly takes off, all other birds will take off immediately after, before they even know what's going on. The one who stays behind may be prey.

Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it.

I've come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they live in.

That's a big thing in my life: going with your gut. If something isn't lighting the fire and making you excited, or if something feels wrong or doesn't agree with you, it should be questioned. It should be talked about.

Once he got bitten, and they all wept bitterly, expecting to see a spectacular death-agony; but he just went off into the bush and probably ate something, for he came back in a few days quite cock-a-hoop and as ready to eat snakes as ever.

The downside to jackrabbit reflexes is that while they get you out of the way of obvious and imminent danger, when you're going forty miles an hour on your front wheel, those reflexes will simply launch you into the air like a squirrel on a land mine.

Lions or tigers. They must be off somewhere waiting for the right moment to pounce. I like cats and don't want to hurt one, but I will beat a lion to death with a shark if it tries to take a bite out of me.

Short of flamethrowers, nukes, or a bunch of trained Drifter killers, the best strategy is nature's simplest: run like you're a zebra at a waterhole and a pride of lions just showed up with ketchup and silverware.

Genetically, we are essentially the same creatures as we were at the beginning. We are still hunters and gatherers.

Orte, wo keine Katzen leben wollen, sollte man meiden, Havald

Kissing degenerates into biting.

Animal behavior is not purely emotional. Nor is human decision-making purely rational.

our essential process for making a decision still relies on emotion.

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.

I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.

They're walking around in clothing but they're still the same animals who lived in caves, feared the dark, and smashed one another over the head for beans.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instinct, and never hope more than you work

When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting. Revenge always escalates.

Anyone who'd spent a childhood waiting for the other foot—or the other fist—to fall knew how to sense danger.

Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.