Quotes About Instincts

It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.

i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the pack. thus, they strengthen the very gene pool they're feeding from. the threshold for what is weak, old or sick gets raised, and the strength, speed and instincts of new generations of hunters grow. a beautiful, self-perpetuating system where evolution is the antithesis of entropy.

In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.

Men are victims of their own impulses.

By and large the aristocracy was intelligent enough. The problem was that its members had no need to live by their wits. Thus their wits atrophied. If they could not rely upon the sharper instincts and abundant common sense of their servants, the British upper classes would destroy themselves through sheer inertness.

Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.

Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable.

If you're ever in a spooky situation and have a strong instinct that you are being watched, hunted, or followed, I advise you not to treat those instincts lightly.

Or society places a supreme value on control -- hiding what you feel. Our culture mocks primitive cultures and prides itself on supression of natural instincts and impulses.

Our culture mocks primitive cultures and prides itself on suppression of natural instincts and impulses.

No animal will accept the justice of being punished for following its instincts. (90)

it is a network kept alive by people whose instincts tell them that if they do not keep moving at night on the desert they will lose all reason.

She trusted her instincts; she trusted those dear to her; she trusted her emotions and her passions. She drank deep, you could see that; she squeezed every drop of living out of all the elements that mattered to her. It made her careless sometimes, of course it did, but it was a wonderfully rich and rapt way to be.

This was the first time I had not just rushed in and followed my instincts, and it wasn't working out. I was beginning to actively regret it.

Nothing sucks more than being disappointed with yourself. Why is it so hard to trust your instincts, I wonder.

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off."

One did not depend on marines for good table manners. One depended on them to have the right instincts when it came to matters of life and death.

the inner urge of your feelings, emotions, instincts, and ingrained habits gives you the go power that puts you into action.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

Don't listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, they'd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.

As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.

So when it comes to Elvis and Joe, I have to trust my instincts, because they've gotten me here. And I have to write what I believe in, what I find moving.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.