By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye.
By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.
The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.
Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music?
There's no wrong move on stage. You can do no wrong if you just trust your instincts.
You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.
I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.
Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.
They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)
And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?
I live on my gut instinct.
But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
Never to be frightened of taking risks and always follow your instincts!