Quotes About Instinctive

Jackendoff and Lerdahl also suggest that the way people convert music into gesture, whether by dance or in conducting an orchestra, is instinctive and special to music alone.

A goose instinctively heads south in a V-formation in a V formed of other geese instinctively heading south. It doesn't check out the beach and experiment with a sandpiper lifestyle. It does what it's designed to do.

Goshawks are nervous because they live life ten times faster than we do, and they react to stimuli literally without thinking.

It is not by sin that we attain happiness, nor is it by virtue, nor is it by that kind of divine fire by which one makes great instinctive decisions and which is neither good not evil. It is by none of these things that one reaches happiness. One never reaches happiness.

Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

It is to the unknown one yields most impulsively; it is toward the unknown that one feels the most total, the most instinctive obligation.

Not only can there be no seduction, but there can be no rape either without a minimal signal. A being capable of truly extinguishing all signals and emitting no anticipated response would be protected even from violence. This is indeed the attitude we instinctively take when faced with physical aggression or aggressive demands – suppression of the signals of fear or desire.

Where accidents happen in succession, there is a kind of instinctive relationship between them. Having once smelled blood, they come running with a passion, impatient to occur in their turn, drawn in by the magnetic field. You become a kind of accident attraction zone. New mothers, for example, are particularly fecund and fertile. We underestimate this capacity which events - particularly unfortunate events - have of reproducing themselves not sexually but by contiguity, by 'kairo- genesis'.

Their heritage of instability, extravagant caprice, and natural elegance was their paternal portion.

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

Some of my work is very instinctive, some of my favourite things I've ever done are just two minute sketches, nothing is better when you get it like that so quick, then other work takes months.

I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.

I like things to happen organically.

I think I make most of my decisions pretty organically.

I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.

I generally respond to any story very organically.

When we sense danger, we will instinctively react with a fight, flight, or freeze response. Not a lot of thought goes into this response. The body just naturally does its thing.

Women's bodies have a near perfect knowledge of childbirth; it's when their brains get involved that things can go wrong.

The best art always comes unbidden.

I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.

All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, of speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words Some Assembly Required.

Interpreting De Waal in religious terms, I would argue that morality does not amount to a codified set of behaviour dictated by a God 'out there', but is an instinctive response to 'that of God' (as the Quakers put it) within each of us.