Top 1200 Animal Instinct Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

I just write by instinct and my screenplays are often the effort of a year-long penance on a subject.

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.

I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it.

There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is the spectacle of a table served that way and what a difference to a make up of fuming animal meat, slaughtered and dead! Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being. Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them.

My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.

I am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct.

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.

From when I was really young one of the first things I did was to perform and do shows. It was like a natural instinct.

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

I didn't have the self-promotion instinct, and I just didn't care about it. I sort of had a "beat" attitude.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!

Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and general order. And what is strange about that? All creatures are involved in the life of all others, consequently every species... all nature is in a perpetual state of flux. Every animal is more or less a human being, every mineral more or less a plant, every plant more or less an animal... There is nothing clearly defined in nature.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.

Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out of their beaks, oars out of their hind feet, wings out of their forefeet, suits of armor out of their hides, levers out of their horns, saws out of their teeth. Whether this be true or not, all authorities agree that man is the tool-using animal. It sets him off from the rest of the animal kingdom as drastically as does speech.

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can’t explain — I don’t need to. I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. Or if I walk in the woods and I see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. I can recollect it, I can notice it. I’m here to take note of. And that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer.

The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to feel a certain amount of sympathy with them, and to perform various services for them.

Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it.

I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.

To survive in a creative economy, you need basic instinct! You have to know and smell your viewer.

A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.

I definitely go on gut instinct but it has always had the back up of research and information.

Inside me, I think that an animal goes through a lot of pain in the whole cycle of death in the slaughterhouse; just living to be killed. That whole situation is really messed up for animals, growing up in those little cooped-up pens. I just don't think its worth eating that animal. I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

Theater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution, and placed later researches in their proper light. A division of the (disc-shaped) embryo into an animal and a plastic part first takes place. In the lower part (the plastic or vegetative layer) are a serous and a vascular layer, each of peculiar organization. In the upper part also (the animal or serous germ-layer) two layers are clearly distinguishable, a flesh-layer and a skin-layer. (1828)

I'm convinced that welfare reforms deserve our support, both because they are better (or at least much less bad) for the animals involved (the Golden Rule), and because they push the envelope, moving us closer to the compassionate world that all animal rights activists are working toward...On the other hand, working toward welfare reforms has the immediate benefit of helping improve animals' lives today and acts as a crucial stepping stone toward animal liberation.

It is obvious that the great majority of humans throughout history have had grossly, even ridiculously, unrealistic concepts of the world. Man is, among many other things, the mistaken animal, the foolish animal. Other species doubtless have much more limited ideas about the world, but what ideas they do have are much less likely to be wrong and are never foolish. White cats do not denigrate black, and dogs do not ask Baal, Jehovah, or other Semitic gods to perform miracles for them.

I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

Because I come from such a close family, my natural instinct is to marry and have kids as soon as possible.

By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

I suppose every time [something bad happens], I have that instinct to make that joke that distracts.

Self-preservation shouldn't be the first instinct in politics. It should be doing the right thing for the country.

Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.

Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.