Quotes About Instinct

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

a brave man is always frightened three times by a lion; when he first sees his track, when he first hears him roar and when he first confronts him.

Strašna je ova ribetina, moram je obuzdati, pomisli. Ne smijem joj dopustiti da postane svjesna svoje snage ni onoga što bi mogla u?initi kad bi potegnula svom snagom. Da sam na njezinu mjestu, sad bih zapeo iz sve snage i povukao pa kud puklo da puklo. Ali one, hvala Bogu, nisu tako pametne ko mi koji ih ubijama, iako su plemenitije i sposobnije od nas.

Es nebiju rad?ts, lai dom?tu. Es biju rad?ts, lai ?stu.

Freud described eros as the life instinct, doing battle with thanatos, the death instinct.

The mother instinct is something of which I am completely devoid. I explain it like this to myself: life is a vale of tears and all human beings are miserable creatures, so I cannot take the responsibility for bringing yet another unhappy creature into the world.

The plain fact was he knew how to do it intuitively, but he could not articulate what it was that he did.

It's human; we all put self interest first.

In order to follow your heart, one must do the wrong thing

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Sharks have millions of years of preprogrammed strategies. Dolphins have cheat codes.

The difference between a wolf and a sheep is that a sheep will stand by and watch a wolf devour its own lambs. If you threaten a wolf's pup, it'll rip your throat out. Wolves are foul, vicious creatures. But it's better to be a wolf pup than a dead lamb. Now good night.

My gut saved me several times in the last few minutes. Now it's telling me something else. This body wasn't the only one in the lake.

Other animals, mainly nonmammals, are indifferent. If a predator snatches a child, their evolutionary calculus tells them they're lucky it wasn't them and life goes on.

My gut says to like him. The rational part of my brain tells me to pay attention to the obvious.

my animal brain, my early warning system that listens for noises and looks for the signs of predators,

Gentleness isn't always a virtue." He leaned on the counter, staring out the window into the dark. "The difference between a wolf and a sheep is that a sheep will stand by and watch a wolf devour its own lambs. If you threaten a wolf's pup, it'll rip your throat out. Wolves are foul, vicious creatures. But it's better to be a wolf pup than a dead lamb. Now good night.

This tension between the instinctive animal and the reasoning human who discounts anything that doesn't fit into narrow sense categories is fascinating to me.

You know about the frog and the pot of boiling water?" "That's a myth. They hop out. They always hop out.

it's not a gut instinct per se—it's a neurological response triggered by one or more stimuli that are either unconscious or barely at our sensory threshold.

Deep down we're all animals.

Human beings have survived for millennia because most of us make good decisions about our health most of the time.

When there's hunger you don't share out your food, you just devour the weakest ones. This practice works among wolves, since it lets the healthiest and strongest individuals survive. But among sentient races selection of that kind usually allows the biggest bastards to survive and dominate the rest.

You won't do it.' Bonhart's voice resounded in the complete silence. 'You won't do it, witcher girl. In Kaer Morhen you were taught how to kill, so you kill like a machine. Instinctively. To kill yourself you need character, strength, determination and courage. And they couldn't teach you that.