Quotes About Instincts

Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning.

I don't like the idea of playing a one-dimensional character who is just fearless, strong, and killer and has instincts and just thrives in dangerous circumstances - that's really boring to me, and I don't think it represents what most women feel inside.

Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.

I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.

We are all a tiger with feelings. An elephant who never forgets. We are tiger, panther, monkey - we are all of these things, all of the life rhythms.

Most predatory animals, if you give them an inch they just go with it. Any animal - a tiger, a shark, anything - you can't act like something that is afraid of it and that's where all their predatory instincts come in.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

He was pleading with her, his eyes anxious, and she found herself responding against all her deeper instincts.

So she becomes, like all females deprived of a mate, predatory and exacting.

The radical call of faith is not to insist upon a set of universal principles about right and wrong, but to offer an alternative story by which lives can be shaped into new instincts, new practices, new ways of speaking and being in the world. We want our teens to make a decision consistent with the better story of which they are a part, a decision that doesn't even feel like a decision but a script they know by heart.

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible.

The only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. It was only really one time.

Chislev does not forbid anything," Atieno replied. "She is not like those stuffy old gods Paladine and Kiri-Jolith, with their rules and lessons. Chislev is the mother of the world. She is the goddess of plants and animals. She bids us, her followers, to rely on our instincts and feelings.

La pintura debía ser expresión de la totalidad del ser humano: su inteligencia, su destreza artesanal, su cultura, pero también sus creencias, sus instintos, sus deseos y sus odios.

The mating rites of mantises are well known: a chemical produced in the head of the male insect says in effect, 'No, I don't go near her, you fool, she'll eat you alive.' At the same time a chemical in his abdomen says, 'Yes, by all means, now and forever yes.

Your instincts might tell you that you'd do better in the second scenario, with steady gains, but you'd be wrong. You can actually make higher returns by investing regularly in a volatile stock market.

What are our beliefs designed for? They're the guiding force to tell us what will lead to pain and what will lead to pleasure.

He liked to be kindly treated, to be praised and petted, to be well fed and caressed; and they who so treated him were his chosen friends. He had in this the instincts of a horse, not approaching the higher sympathies of a dog.

We know that power does corrupt, and that we cannot trust kings to have loving hearts, and clear intellects, and noble instincts

but men who have been brought up with opinions altogether different, even with different instincts as to politics, who from their mother's milk have been nourished on codes of thought altogether opposed to each other, cannot work together with confidence even though they may desire the same thing. The very ideas which are sweet as honey to the one are bitter as gall to the other.

Education is a struggle against instincts which are linked to elemental biological functions, a struggle against nature, in order to dominate it and create man immersed within his own time.