Top 1200 Animal Instinct Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

I am, by instinct, wary of revolutions. The gathering of the masses fills me with trepidation.

The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.

Women have an instinct for what the market is. We have tremendous insight in terms of understanding products and consumerism.

That`s instinct, you catch and you shoot. I`ve done it hundreds of thousands of times in my driveway. It`s what I`ve practiced.

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.

Conflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold.

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.

Ochocinco had a rare instinct for making himself an almost daily story.

When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.

Fear is always there; it's a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

When we hunt or fish, we deliberately kill a defenseless being who wishes us no harm. This is a direct violation of the First Precept. It is absolutely forbidden to Buddhists. As to eating meat, we know that the only way we can obtain it is for an animal to be killed. Therefore, when we eat meat, it is our intent that an innocent animal should die to satisfy our addiction to flesh. And that underlying intention, no matter how well hidden behind a smokescreen of rationalizations will block the growth of compassion and create negative karma.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful but sometimes overwhelming, to look beyond his animal existence and not be fully satisfied with its immediate substance. He lacks the complacency of the other animals: he is obsessed by pride and guilt, pride at being something more than a mere animal, built at falling short of the high aims he sets for himself.

My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

Your instinct when someone is busy is to give them the least amount of work so that they can do it.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

The instinct to notice changes gives women a tremendous advantage over men.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.

Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.

It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.

I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

As a global disrupter, Uber is no stranger to conflict, and its instinct has always been pugilistic.

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

I am a perfect case study for the transition from no maternal instinct to the love of motherhood.

My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there is no scientific test one can postulate that would definitively prove its existence in another entity. We assume that other biological human persons, at least those who are at least acting conscious, are indeed conscious. But this too is an assumption, and this shared human consensus breaks down when we go beyond human experience (e.g., the debate on animal consciousness, and by extension animal rights).

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.

Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

I don't think about making sexy clothes. It's just my instinct to make them.

I'm very impulsive and I always had a belief in instinct leading the way.

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.

If I hear a song that I like, my first instinct is to find out about who made it.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.