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Quotes About Instincts

There was something about that man when he was all angry and dangerous that got my blood up. Sometimes my survival instincts are not what they should be.
~ Patricia Briggs
An Omega has all the protective instincts of an Alpha and none of the violent tendencies
~ Patricia Briggs
but his instincts were instilled a long time ago. You are going to have to help him with that and be patient with him.
~ Patricia Briggs
I have noticed that people who listen to their instincts live longer.
~ Patricia Briggs
I am not, as you will have observed, a man greatly enamored of his fellow human beings. I do not enter lightly into the foibles and whimsicalities of others, I do not suffer fools gladly, I seem able, in conversation, only to needle or be needled. My relationships, as a result, are few, and those few are tenuous, prickly sorts of arrangements, altogether lacking in the spontaneity and intimacy for which humans, I'm told, have an instinctive need. I am aware of no such instincts myself.
~ Unknown
No conductor of any symphony orchestra requires more sensitivity, more powers of observation, more finely tuned instincts, more passionate desires for perfection than the great classic racehorse trainer.
~ Unknown
It doesn't take long in marriage bedore you realize that your spouse doesn't share your instincts. At that point, either you worship God as sovereign and celebrate the different way of looking at the world that your spouse has blessed you with, or you dishonor him by trying to rewrite his story.
~ Paul David Tripp
You can trust your own experiences more than your desires.
~ Unknown
it is not our fault that we are the way we are with all our drives, passions and aversions.
~ Paul Gilbert
The designer is primarily confronted with three classes of material: a) the given material: product, copy, slogan, logotype, format, media, production process; b) the formal material: space, contrast, proportion, harmony, rhythm, repetition, line, mass, shape, color, weight, volume, value, texture; c) the psychological material: visual perception and optical illusion problems, the spectators' instincts, intuitions, and emotions as well as the designer's own needs.
~ Paul Rand
The masses are like an animal that obeys its instincts. They do not reach conclusions by reasoning . . . The masses have a simple system of thinking and feeling, and anything that cannot be fitted into it disturbs them [. . .] what you tell the people in the mass, in a receptive state of fanatic devotion, will remain like words received under a hypnotic influence, ineradicable, and impervious to every reasonable explanation.
~ Unknown
Homo sapiens sapiens, the shy, murderous ape, may be spreading pestilence and pollution on a global scale, but his violent instincts at least seem to have been triumphantly tamed.
~ Unknown
Keep seeing shades of gray. Often, loved ones pick up the borderline defense mechanism of splitting, or seeing things in black and white. Keep in mind the subtleties inherent in all situations. Don't get drawn into the other person's extreme reactions; trust your instincts and form your own judgments.
~ Unknown
Don't get drawn into the other person's extreme reactions; trust your instincts and form your own judgments.
~ Unknown
One day you might want to train for other owners, maybe even for Delamere. You've got the right base and you've the instincts." "Get my trainer's licence, you mean? Has a woman done that?" "Maybe not. But there aren't any rules against it." "I could try…. " I let the words trail away.
~ Paula McLain
Let the advocate of animal food force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and, as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth, and plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the streaming blood; when fresh from the deed of horror, let him revert to the irresistible instincts of nature that would rise in judgment against it, and say 'Nature formed me for such work as this. Then, and then only, would he be consistent.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I have worked to develop a safe, gentle, and effective way for people to heal from trauma. It works by understanding that trauma is primarily physiological. Trauma is something that happens initially to our bodies and our instincts. Only then do its effects spread to our minds, emotions, and spirits.
~ Peter A. Levine
Children who are encouraged to attend to their instinctual responses are rewarded with a lifelong legacy of health and vigor.
~ Peter A. Levine
Love arises when you have a surplus; it disappears when you're reduced to the basic instincts: hunger, sleep, the need for security.
~ Peter Høeg