Quotes About Instinct

When in doubt, throw it out.

Now, what happens whenever there's a loud sound is that it startles us, right? And we arrest what we're doing, and we try to localize that sound because that sound could be a threat. That's something that's hard-wired in our bodies.

Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this.

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.

I think if you write from your own gut, you'll come up with something interesting, whereas if you sit around guessing what people want, you end up with the kind of same schlock that everybody else has got.

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it.

It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

The Divine Impulse - it's always safe to follow it. We've got to trust it and go wherever it takes us. Especially women.

Lean just follows his heart wherever it wants to go.

Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.

I go, wherever there is my interest, where my heart and feeling take me.

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

My game is based on improvisation. Often, a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.

Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.

As soon as the whistle blows, something triggers me.

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.

White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

Octopus can fish for prey while deciding what color and pattern to turn, what shape to make their bodies, be on alert for predators and aware how far away their dens are.

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

I think walking is a little more primal than art-making.

My brokenness has made me become more primal, more instinctual.