#instincts

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#comics #creativity #human-activity #instincts #reproduction

Change occurs at the edges, without permission. ↗

— Patti Digh

#instincts #permission #take-a-chance #change

Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. He has no automatic knowledge of what is good for him or evil, what values his life depends on, what course of action it requires. Are you prattling about an instinct of self-preservation? An instinct of self-preservation is precisely what man does not possess. An 'instinct' in as unerring and automatic form of knowledge. A desire is not an instinct. A desire to live does not give you the knowledge required for living. And even man's desire to live is not automatic: your secret evil today is that that is the desire you do not hold. Your fear of death is not a love of life and will not give you the knowledge needed to keep it. Man must obtain his knowledge and choose his actions by a process of thinking, which nature will not force him to perform. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of history. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#human-nature #instincts #life #man #thought

When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices. ↗

— Martha Beck

#bank #brain #choices #entire #everything

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both. ↗

— Bono

#chance #change #change the world #fun #have fun

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#comes #creativity #follows #go #humor

I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#because #break #does #end #fun

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#behind #both #cut #i #i think

Stick to your instincts. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#stick #your

I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts. ↗

— Gary Gygax

#chicken #gut #home #i #instincts