Quotes About Instincts

I have a lot of survivor insticts, and I know when to quit. I know when to go forward it my life, but not everybody does.

Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.

I have always followed my instincts when it comes to music and life in general. They were telling me very loudly that it was time for John D., Hallmark and I to get back together.

I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!

We now had three girls and one testosterone-pumped guy bird that spent every walking minute doing of of three things: pursuing sex, having sex or crowing boastfully about the sex he had just scored. Jenny observed that roosters are what men would be if left to their own devices, with no social conventions to rein in their baser instincts, and I couldn't disagree. I had to admit, I kind of admired the lucky bastard.

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

Like I said, they can be pretty crazy, horses. Not as sensible as sheep.

Gavin was not prey to the irrational hormonal urges of meat-a kindess for which he thanked his makers-but he was not without feelings.

The bird that is shot is a parent," he observed in an address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. "We take advantage of its most sacred instincts to waylay it, and in depriving the parent of life, we doom the helpless offspring to the most miserable of deaths, that by hunger. If this is not cruelty, what is?

Please do not misunderstand me," he once told Wilson. "We too came into the world with the noble instincts and the lofty aspirations which you express so often and so eloquently. We have become what we are because we have been shaped by the rough hand of the world in which we have to live and we have survived only because we are a tough bunch.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

En qué piensa uno en momentos como éste? ¿A quién recuerda, a quién olvida, a quién ama? La respuesta es nada ni nadie en absoluto, pues los instintos, más poderosos que los pensamientos, se concentran en conservar la vida.

El ser humano es bestia torpe a la que no mueven los buenos sentimientos, sino el látigo. Para

The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.

We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

Paranoid nationalism may well be an intellectual void, and appeal to the lowest instincts—there is nothing in North Korean ideology that a child of twelve cannot grasp at once—but for that very reason it has proven itself capable of uniting citizens of all classes, and inspiring them through bad times as well as good ones.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively.

My first reaction to any fight opportunity is yes, just out of instincts. That's why I'm in this sport.

In a confrontational situation, you'll get their gut. And I want their gut! And that's why people watch this show!

I have seen their humor and anger expressed in natural terms and learned more about them as dogs and not just extensions of human training.

My instincts led me to meditate in the woods when I was a kid. I would emerge at sunset and announce to my family that we are all connected beings. I would watch the grass grow and dance with trees and realize that I was a necessary part of the inter-workings of the world.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.