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Quotes About Instinct

When we discover that someone we trusted can be trusted no longer, it forces us to reexamine the universe, to question the whole instinct and concept of trust. For a while, we are thrust back onto some bleak, jutting ledge, in a dark pierced by sheets of fire, swept by sheets of rain, in a world before kinship, or naming, or tenderness exist; we are brought close to formlessness.
~ Adrienne Rich
There is an animal instinct force in humans that creates passion. When you love sometimes you cross a border.
~ Gaspar Noe
Passions aren't something you have to think about, they're something you know and feel.
~ Camille Kostek
I allow my intuition to lead my path.
~ Manuel Puig
Kante senses dangers and knows where the ball is going to be. He has that in his DNA. Paul Pogba has more in his DNA to be up there, create.
~ Graeme Souness
There's a herd instinct, and every time that people hear an announcement such as PayPal's in Dundalk, they start thinking, 'Ireland must be good if they're investing there', and by extension, 'Dundalk must be good, so let's have a look at it.'
~ Martin Naughton
I mixed with a lot of peasants, workers, artists and writers, all deprived of work. That's when I understood human beings have an instinct toward knowledge.
~ Mikis Theodorakis
Trust your instinct. And if you can't tell what your instinct is telling you, learn how to peel back the noise in your life that is keeping you from hearing it.
~ Caroline Ghosn
Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.
~ Melanie Fiona
People say, 'Well, whose career do you follow? Where do you see your career going? What movie do you want to do next?' And I can't tell you what type of movie I would go and do next. I would have to read the script and feel for a character. And if I feel in my gut for a character, I know that that's somebody I have to play.
~ Blake Lively
An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.
~ Alan Bates
I have always had a performers instinct since I was a child.
~ Shriya Pilgaonkar
Performing has always been instinctive to me. I remember people saying, 'he doesn't know if he's a chef or an entertainer.' But what's wrong with being both? It's like saying you can't run the 100 and the 200 metres.
~ Ainsley Harriott
What is life, except an ongoing instinct for survival? Nature uses that instinct to make us perform; otherwise we would all relax, and the species would disappear. Nature is a cruel green mother. The survival instinct is a goad, not a privilege.
~ Piers Anthony
Hasta ese momento habían cocinado la carne o la habían secado al sol, pero ahora no quedaba otra alternativa que comérsela húmeda y cruda a medida que la iban cortando, y como tenían tanta hambre, muchos comieron grandes pedazos que tuvieron que masticar y saborear. Para
~ Piers Paul Read
A queste latitudini, sacrificare la vita per difendere un territorio è qualcosa che scorre nelle vene da cinque secoli. E sembra tutt'altro che sopito, come istinto.
~ Pino Cacucci
Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.
~ Pitigrilli
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
~ Plato
man by nature is not a wild or unsocial creature, neither was he born so, but makes himself what he naturally is not, by vicious habit; and that again on the other side, he is civilized and grows gentle by a change of place, occupation, and manner of life, as beasts themselves that are wild by nature, become tame and tractable by housing and gentler usage...
~ Plutarch
Istoria omului reprezinta o lupta continua intre instinct si inteligenta, intre ritmul involuntar al organismului si modelele autocreate ale constiintei.
~ Poul Anderson
How simple life is. It's as simple as this: you're hungry and you eat, you're full and you shit. Between eating and shitting, that's where human life is found. - (Houseboy + Maid, in Tales from Djakarta)
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Binatang itu bicara, makan -- tapi tak mengerti dirinya sendiri. Dan aku begitu juga.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Semua lelaki memang kucing berlagak kelinci. Sebagai kelinci dimakannya semua daun, sebagai kucing dimakannya semua daging.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
A cat is a tiger that is fed by hand.
~ Proverb