Fight or Flight Response Quotes

I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.

When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

Everyone has jitters in their first fight.

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

The natural reaction people have when violence has been used against them is to react violently.

I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.

Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle; being paralysed by fear is not.

I've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses.

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.

Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria - I would never have expected that or given it a moment's thought before, but it shows up in the data in so many ways.

When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.

If a predator tries to get a hold of you, yell, kick, and punch. Do all of the typical self-defense measures you've heard of - eye-gouging, knee to the crotch. Anything you can do to cause a scene.

I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.

I sweat a lot because I get really nervous.

When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the kinds of things that our ancestors survived.

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they were doing it, she pulled a knife out of her belt and sliced open his chest, just like she used to open chicken breasts to stuff with rice for the Sabbath meal.

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.