"Our brains are built that way and that's part of survival too, right?"
"Humans all have three main survival instincts: self-preservation, sexual, and social."
"Survival is knowing when to get out alive while you still can."
"Our own nature as Homo sapiens... we're loud, we're violent... when pressed into a corner, we will fight."
"Emotions for animals really are guiding their activities to survive."
"Eventually, for survival purposes, they will do the right thing."
"The instinct to survive and reproduce is strong in humans. It surpasses all reason."
"It's amazing that Homo sapiens were precocious enough to figure out the only priority they had was don't die."
"Not talking about the problems to me sounds like avoidance, not eating the food sounds to me like hunger, not sleeping in bed at night sounds like tired, not breathing long enough sounds like dead."
"It's better to be hungry and looking for your next meal than to be trapped in a cage."
"Only because we had to smack down every other animal that was stronger, had bigger teeth and claws, that could hunt us."
"Every day in Africa, a lion wakes up. It's too late to be scared. It's time to kill."
"Their primal instincts kicked in and they soon realized that they could sustain themselves by foraging the jungles for anything to eat."
"If you could eat plain meat or an egg, you're hungry. That's just what it feels like."
"Our bodies are wise... it's a primal survival instinct that makes so much sense."
"Creatures don't fight to the death unless they, unless you back them into a corner."
"Troops, generally speaking, have pretty strong incentives to survive, and if getting better at your job improves your odds of survival well then you are probably going to try and find new and innovative ways to not get blown up."
"500 years ago if you heard a noise outside and you ignored it it might be something that was going to eat you."
"When everything broke down, who were the people who just went and took whatever they wanted? Those people understood survival."
"A starving man in a desert will eat [__] anything."
"They're just algorithms, designed to survive at all costs. They're just the passenger."
"If you're still conscious when you're being beat like this, you're not going to be standing still. It's not a static situation. You're going to move, you're gonna try to defend yourself against your attacker."
"The true selfish nature of human beings will manifest when it comes down to survival."
"Your survival sexuality plays a very central role in your survival as a human."
"No animal unless it's hungry is interested in us."
"My fight or flight reflex usually sees me fleeing to safety unless I have no choice but to fight."
"You'll be surprised what a person is willing to do when they don't have food."
"His self-preservation instinct takes over and prompts him to find the woman at all costs because he would have a hard time explaining the things that he did."
"Orlok by contrast is a monster who has learned to live among us, driven by the need to hunt, to feed."
"It's about just wanting to survive and have your basic necessities."
"Wolves may be smaller than lions at under 200 pounds but that doesn't mean they'll roll over in a battle against a lion."
"Your brain is trying so hard to survive, that you will do anything to survive."
"Survival of the fittest: enjoy watching others freak out, but remember, if the herd goes one way, you go the other."
"Your lizard brain is what keeps you alive in life."
"Reflexes like a mongoose, they can dodge the bite of a cobra, the strike of a cobra."
"The bottom line is we're wired to out-compete our rivals."
"Anytime you are put on a path that you are unfamiliar with, you are forced to grow, there's no option, it's think or Swim."
"I don't think a Bigfoot would want an apex predator the same size as him with ripping tearing canines coming at him."
"A drowning man grab at straws and leaves even though the leaf can't hold you up out of the water but these are desperate times."
"If Captain Jack Sparrow has taught us anything, it's that he'll do anything to survive and have an adventure."
"Miss Nobodies don't survive. You can choose: you're either somebody, or you fizzle out."
"Prioritize survival instead of being emotional."
"If you're playing dead and a [__] walks up to you and starts tickling you underneath your arms and your feet and [__], you ain't going to laugh, you're going to be in a gang of trouble then you're crazier than a [__] [__]."
"Our bodies listen to those messages and our nervous system really wants us to stay alive."
"Could we be missing part of the human story here? Could we be missing a big factor of our psychology where humans tend to very quickly resort to just basic survival instincts?"
"They seem to have really poor survival instincts but I guess they can't really know that they're not accustomed or prepared to be in a fish tank like this."
"...humans feel joy, love, and fear throughout their lives, and fear, especially, is a very primal, far-reaching emotion that has contributed to our survival as a species."
"I thought it was just a glitch, but then... it had been de-iced for me."
"...that's when my survival instincts finally kicked in."
"Lobsters got hungry started biting off all their tentacles that means that they were in there for a long time that they've been out of the ocean."
"Trying to evade predators using every tool at your disposal, and it all feels very natural in the moment."
"When cornered, desperate, or isolated, man reverts to those instincts that aim straight at survival. Quick and just."
"The way we perceive design and use the tools around us is largely influenced by leftover survival mechanisms."
"The key to survival was always being aware of your surroundings and listening to your instincts."
"We are designed to have a wandering mind... our survival brain is in action on some level being vigilant."
"It's all about survival instincts, it's all about being resourceful."
"Your brain's survival instincts are seeking certain survival, while in trading, your brain has to be retrained to look at long-term thriving."
"Affects are evolutionary memories that anticipate survival needs."