Quotes About Instinct

Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.

Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.

In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me.

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

Sometimes you could meet a complete stranger and just know you really liked them.

A cop friend downstate had once described what he called the 'pucker effect,' the body's automatic response when something just wasn't right. He wasn't talking about the lips; the puckering happened farther south, and every cop learned to trust that instinct.

Blind panic might not work all the time, but at least it saved you the stress of planning.

The time I spent in the jungles held unalloyed happiness for me, and that happiness I would now gladly share. My happiness, I believe, resulted from the fact that all wildlife is happy in its natural surroundings. In nature there is no sorrow, and no repining. A bird from a flock, or an animal from a herd, is taken by hawk or carnivorous beast and those that are left rejoice that their time had not come today, and have no thought of tomorrow.

A leopard, on the other hand, even after it has killed scores of human beings, never loses its fear of man; and, as it is unwilling to face human beings in daylight, it secures its victims when they are moving about at night or by breaking into their houses at night. Owing

The law of the jungle which I learned at a young age, and have been trying to escape ever since, is that we what we must to survive.

A growing body of research suggests that as little as 5 percent of our behaviors are consciously self-directed. We are creatures of habit and as much as 95 percent of what we do occurs automatically or in reaction to a demand or an anxiety.

Man is extremely uncomfortable with uncertainty. To deal with his discomfort, man tends to create a false sense of security by substituting certainty for uncertainty. It becomes the herd instinct.

the herd instinct and crowd behavior arise out of our desire to replace uncertainty with certainty

It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

Humans are merely just animals Which are programmed to behave Appropriately according to their age

She sketched people, noting their habits. This information was to be shared with others at the camp, even though she instinctively disliked these men.

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: When the sun comes up, you'd better be running!

If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how?

No one knows what they'll do in a moment of crisis and hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.