#instinct

It's hard to think when someone's trying to kill you. We human beings aren't wired to be rational and creative when we know our lives are in danger of a swift and violent end. The body has definite ideas of which survival strategies it prefers to embrace, and those are generally limited to "rip threat to pieces" or "run like hell." No thinking need be involved, as far as our instincts are concerned. Our instincts were a long time in the making, though, and the threats that can come after us now have outpaced them. You can't outrun a bullet, and you don't go hand-to-hand with a gunman unless you're certain you are about to die anyway. Speed and mindless aggression weren't going to keep me alive. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#survival-instinct #strategy

..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#instinct #judgment #stereotype #judgment

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#finds #instincts #mankind #readiest #response

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#clothes #had #influence #instinct #magic

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature. ↗

— George P. Baker

#adequate #characterization #desire #dialogue #dramatic

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor. ↗

— Alan Bates

#emotional #instinctive #more #performance #usually

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

— Josh Billings

#common sense #enough #genius #instinct #sense

I act with my gut instincts. ↗

— Alanna Ubach

#gut #i #instincts

People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it. ↗

— Danny Aiello

#because #call #consider #early #had

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#dismay #finding #finds #flower #heart