Quotes About Instincts

It's very important to follow your instincts because, beyond what you know exists or what you're told exists in a given area, your intuition plays a big part in finding something special.

I'm not a mixer. That's not what I do. I'm a songwriter, a singer, and a guitar player. You might have some ideas here and there, but you let the mixer mix the song because, overall, you've gotta trust their instincts.

I think I'm better at songwriting now, and it does come easier. I have faith in my initial instincts.

Every move, every act, and every thought of every human being is influenced by one or more of the nine basic motives.

We need tricks to get us there but before that we need to accept the fact that we are mere animals in need of lower forms of tricks, not lectures.

I have two further points to make on this subject. First, justification of overoptimism on grounds that "it brought us here" arises from a far more serious mistake about human nature: the belief that we are built to understand nature and our own nature and that our decisions are, and have been, the result of our own choices. I beg to disagree. So many instincts drive us.

our actions are not quite guided by the parts of our brain that dictate rationality. We think with our emotions and there is no way around it.

So many instincts drive us.

Most people have two emergency modes. Fight and Flight. But Conner always knew he had three. Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally.

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

Finally, it may not be a logical deduction, but to my imagination it is far more satisfactory to look at such instincts as the young cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers, ants making slaves, the larvae of ichneumonidae feeding within the live bodies of caterpillars, not as specially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of one general law leading to the advancement of all organic beings—namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

Pueden los instintos adquirirse y modificarse por medio de la selección natural? ¿Qué diremos del instinto que lleva a la abeja a hacer celdas, y que prácticamente se ha adelantado a los descubrimientos de notables matemáticos?

Nevertheless many a civilized man, or even boy, who never before risked his life for another, but full of courage and sympathy, has disregarded the instinct of self-preservation, and plunged at once into a torrent to save a drowning man, though a stranger. Such actions as the above appear to be the simple result of the greater strength of the social or maternal instincts rather than that of any other instinct or motive.

If you think of politics as 'serious people focusing seriously on the most important questions,' which is the default mode of most educated people and the media (but not the less-educated public which has better instincts), then your model of reality is badly wrong.

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

My instincts have never lies to me.

My instincts have never lied to me.

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.

Unlike other animals we are aware of our instincts, and as a result may attempt to shape or control them.

Love holds on to it's bad habits. - My Heart Is Not A Poodle

I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way. ~Train Heartnet

When a man's instincts are evil, repentance has a short lease and brief is his gratitude towards those who have done him good.