Quotes About Instinct

Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.

The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!

Irks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the maw-crammed beast?

Rats!They fought the dogs and killed the cats,And bit the babies in the cradles,And ate the cheeses out of the vats,And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles.

I made a fatuous remark about how badly people behave when they're frightened

The world is ruled by necessity: People change their behavior only if they have to. They will feel urgency only if their lives depend on it.

As many neuroscientists have affirmed, this evolution has led to the higher mammalian brain being composed of three parts. The oldest is the reptilian part of the brain, which controls all automatic responses that regulate the body. This is the instinctive part. Above that is the old mammalian or limbic brain, governing feeling and emotion. And on top of that has evolved the neocortex

Aggression is a tendency that is latent in every single human individual.

Animals feel fear for a brief time, then it is gone. We dwell on our fears, intensifying them and making them last well past the moment of danger, even to the point of feeling constant anxiety.

Listen to Your Inner Authority

We are subject to forces from deep within us that drive our behavior and that operate below the level of our awareness.

Our ancestors' survival depended on the intensity of their attention. The longer and harder they looked, the more they could distinguish between an opportunity and a danger.

You always knew if a film was out of synch, however fractionally; you always knew if someone fancied you, however improbably; and you always knew when someone was on your tail.

He was shaking violently. He had to clench his teeth to stop them chattering. And yet, oddly, he felt no panic. Panic was quite different to fear, he was discovering. Panic was moral and nervous collapse, a waste of precious energy, whereas fear was all sinew and instinct: an animal that stood up on its hind legs and filled you completely, that took control of your brain and your muscles.

It's better to copulate than not.

Never prod at woman, unless you must, she will kill you faster than a man and for less reason. Even if she weeps over it after.

Men teach cats curiosity, but cats keep sense for themselves.

That was a thing of wolves; they could know the past and the future, yet keep their attention on the hunt. Could he do the same? Allow himself to be consumed when needed, yet keep balance in other parts of his life?

The wolves had no notions of time the way men did, no reasons to divide a day into hours. The seasons were time enough for them, and the light and the dark. No need for more.

How do you know when a woman wants to kill you?" Rand mused. "When she knows your name?" Dobraine

How do you know when a woman wants to kill you?" Rand mused. "When she knows your name?

The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining," as she remembered Lini saying.

Wolves lived in the moment; though they remembered the past and seemed to have an odd sense for the future, they didn't worry about either. Not as men did. Wolves ran free, chasing the winds. To join them would be to ignore pain, sorrow and frustration. To be free…

That primal wolf inside of him sparked to wakefulness