I believe we are all born with the ability to learn, and it is an instinct from birth.
This purposiveness was the expression of a subjectively experienced urge that stemmed from an emotional source present at birth and hence constituted an instinct.
Famous writers are critics in the same way crocodiles are carnivores -- from birth, by training and by instinct -- but in public, with rare exceptions, they come on like saints and vegetarians.
When fathers are present for the birth, it arouses their nurturing instincts.
I remember a mounting protective instinct, heightened by the birth of my second daughter almost exactly nine months after the attacks.
The Young Vic will always be, as Olivier said, "Frank's baby"; but the good news is that, even though it has reached middle-age, it retains the pioneering, populist instinct that gave it birth.
If women were really born with a maternal instinct, we would see birth rates stay the same through the years.
Of the breastfeeding scene, Symons stated: "Marilyn is shocked and offended, and this cuts to the very core of her worries - that she doesn't have the same natural mothering instincts as George's birth mother.
Ms. Lessing tells us that she was not in love with her first husband, or her second, and that her maternal instincts temporarily "switched off" after the birth of her second child.
According to the Hindu doctrine of karma, morality is an instinct at the stage of the human birth and then, through religious or other karmic experience, it simply evolves through "care for the other".
