Quotes About Instincts

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying.

The instincts of a former age were still at work in Gabriel Corte: when someone hurt him, rather than defend himself, his first reaction was to complain.

a good education is precisely designed to correct the instincts of human nature.

We're just living on our emotions and eating each other.

Eros and Thanatos: a false pair and a true pair.

El Diablo pone en nosotros muchos y muy variados apetitos, pero Dios nos da claridad moral para controlarlos. Eso nos diferencia de los animales.

The best thing about football for me is the reacting. It's a lot of instincts. But training, for me, it's more for the meditating. And I spend more time training than actually playing football. So I get into that zone during training more than anything.

Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.

Human beings are born with just two basic fears. One is the fear of loud noises. The other is the fear of falling. All other fears must be learned.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

The horse does abominate the camel; the mighty elephant is afraid of a mouse; and they say that the lion, which scorneth to turn his back upon the stoutest animal, will tremble at the crowing of a cock.

If we're in a scene together, I want to give you something that allows your performance to be truthful. In football, if you're opposite me, I want to destroy you, take your head off. I'm still reading body language, still reacting, still trusting my instincts - same as football - but it's different now.

I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way.

There are places you should be and places you shouldn't, and situations you should not be getting yourself into. If you're turning up to games and not feeling right, that's when you've got to address the situation.

I Instagram and tweet a lot about my dog. I think he is one of the most interesting things about my life right now. All my motherly instincts go toward this dog. I love the dog.

People unconsciously want to reveal their inner urges.

Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.

If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

He made sure she didn't fall, but he also made sure she had to focus on keeping her balance instead of judging her singing because one of the biggest reasons athletes choked was from overconcentrating in crunch situations. Tension disrupted rhythm. An experienced player going through a bad streak only made it worse by focusing so much on the outcome he lost touch with his natural instincts. it was exactly the kind of mental disconnect he suspected had happened to her.

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

They might. But you're playing on their natural instincts to flee danger. Thinking like your prey . . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities,

you're playing on their natural instincts to flee danger. Thinking like your prey . . . that's where you find their vulnerabilities,

The goal is to achieve an internal calmness that comes when your intellect and your instincts are operating in harmony.