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Quotes About Instinct

The body knows things the thinking mind can only imagine.
~ Donald Altman
The Jungle Creed says the Strong must Feed on any Prey at Hand, I was Branded a Beast and Sat at a Feast before I was a Man.
~ Donald Goines
Intuition is the GPS of Life.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.
~ Jimmy Buffett
I just believe that sometimes in life you're like a shark - you have to keep moving through water; otherwise, you'll die.
~ Michelle Ryan
Your heart often knows things before your mind does.
~ Polly Adler
I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.
~ Steve Vai
Survival is my primary instinct...it's out of my control. It's stronger than me. It's an outside force, a voice that says 'do this for your life or it will devour you.'
~ Grace Jones
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
~ Jack London
If you do something and it saves your life, it was good taijutsu. In a real fight, you aren't worried about what's pretty.
~ Masaaki Hatsumi
The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
~ Jack London
Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.
~ Dan Wells
My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me
~ Terrence Howard
Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.
~ Charles Goodnight
Every major move in my life was done instinctively.
~ T. D. Jakes
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
~ Samuel Butler
If you train yourself to listen to your intuition and to follow its bidding, you will greatly increase your percentage of success in life.
~ Harold Sherman
Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
~ Karel Capek
Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It's an animalistic instinct for survival.
~ Elie Tahari
What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important in the work that one does in one's life.
~ Stacy Peralta
I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
~ Carson McCullers
I have to go to the woods, and I have to meet the wolf, or else my life will never begin.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?
~ Emily Eden
A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
~ Lucian Freud