Top 1200 Animal Instinct Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

Stay positive, joyful, and optimistic in your activism, even in the face of adversity. Understand that most people continue to consume animal products because they are unaware of the hidden cost - animal cruelty - not because they are bad or apathetic. Offer information, support, and resources in a friendly and supportive manner, as few people have begun their journey toward a compassionate lifestyle by being shamed or ridiculed. Turn anger and frustration into motivation to be as effective as possible.

When I am choosing a role, I follow my instinct.

I prepare to the point where instinct take over.

Instinct is the direct connection with truth.

I am a very instinct-driven person.

One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls Man the only animal that soils its own nest. Every animal soils its nest with the products of its metabolism if unable to move away. Space technology gives us for the first time the freedom to leave our nest, at least for certain functions, in order not to soil it.

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

My instinct is probably one of the strongest assets I've got, workwise.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

The Killer instinct is not perceived by words, but by look.

Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!

You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

If this was my instinct talking, I didn?t want to hear what it was saying.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby-- that's wonderful, when actually they're as ugly as rhinoceroses. Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that we have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself. This is vital not only for the preservation of animal life generally, but for the future existence of man himself - a point that seems to escape many people.

In every man and in every animal, however weak or wicked, great or small, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference is not in the soul, but in the manifestation. Between me and the smallest animal, the difference is only in manifestation, but as a principle he is the same as I am, he is my brother, he has the same soul as I have. This is the greatest principle that India has preached.

Writing is above all a question of instinct.

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

It's a quality you need to be a world champion; you have to have that killer instinct.

Alcohol, contrary to instinct, is not the secret to happiness.

instinct leads me to another flow

Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

I think motherhood is just about instinct.

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

I choose films based on gut instinct.

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind.

I don't have a philosophy. I have an instinct. I accept stuff that I like.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.

People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

Instinct seeks satisfaction. Love is free of all demands.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

A lot of people who work with wildlife work with wildlife to satisfy their own egos. And I don't really agree with that. What I do is get in nice and close to the animal to make the animal look good. My aim in this world is to make that brown snake, that crocodile, that koala, that red-backed spider, that black widow, look good. That's my job. I have absolutely no problem with my ego or my staff's ego.

This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating. Tell me something: Why is taste, the crudest of our sense, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other sense? If you stop and think about it, it's crazy. Why doesn't a horny person has as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it?

Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

How do they find out with the experiments?''...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.''But isn't that unkind to the animal?''Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.

I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that.

You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a Stiff. But you're wrong." He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife? My skin tingles at the point of contact, like he's transmitting electricity through his skin. "My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press." he says, his fingers squeezing at the word break. My body tenses at the edge in his voice, so I am coiled as tight as a spring, and I forget to breathe.

Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct.

My instinct is to be honest and make fun of things.

Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons – that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to."