Instinctive Response Quotes

The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

Act first, explain later.

I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.

I always believe your instinct is the most correct instinct.

Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.

The reason people are uncomfortable is because Donald Trump acts. He doesn't talk with a bunch of people about it before, he just acts.

Trust your first instinct.

There is an innate fear that runs within Israeli society of all that we see and hear around us, and you know what? It's a natural reaction of human beings.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

I have a theory that people are either born 'yeses' or 'nos'.

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

When you do something all of your life, it's still ingrained in you.

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

Fish recognize a bad leader.

Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.

Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.

The key to acting is less acting and just reacting.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,--as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.

Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation of influence: experience, knowledge, seeing and hearing. There is little time for reflection in taking a photograph. All your experiences come to a peak and you work on two levels: conscious and unconscious.

The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Sometimes you walk into things, that, if you were paying attention, vibrationally, you would know right from the beginning that it wasn't what you are wanting. In most cases, your initial knee-jerk response was a pretty good indicator of how it was going to turn out later. The things that give most of you the most grief are those things that initially you had a feeling response about, but then you talked yourself out of it for one reason or another.