Quotes About Intuition

Sometimes you could meet a complete stranger and just know you really liked them.

A cop friend downstate had once described what he called the 'pucker effect,' the body's automatic response when something just wasn't right. He wasn't talking about the lips; the puckering happened farther south, and every cop learned to trust that instinct.

Sometimes in matters of the heart words are not required. Are ill advised, in fact.

I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is.

He wasn't the least bit disturbed that his intuition was wrong: intuition often missed, sometimes spectacularly, but when it connected it saved so much time that the spirit leaped forward ... and, of course, there was no use denying the basic human delight in being right the first time.

At the most marginal of opportunities, Jake was fond of telling anyone within earshot the three great secrets of how to proceed when you don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing. The secrets, in the order he invariably listed them, were intuition, reason, and desperation.

Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, but when I'm working well ideas just appear. I've heard other people say similar things - so it's one of the ways I know there's help and guidance out there. It's just a matter of our figuring out how to receive the ideas or information that are waiting to be heard.

We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.

The minute it doesn't feel good, stop doing it. It's that simple.

Speculating (and this includes investing and trading) is the only human endeavor in which what feels good is the right thing to do.

It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

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.

I stretch my fingers across my belly and glide my hand back and forth, waving softly. Sometimes I think I feel a hand reaching out for mine. Or it could be a foot, kicking my hand away. I wish I could tell the difference.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

O'Connor had a knack for bringing a personal - and winning - touch to a situation when people least expected it.

I felt he was speaking

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear.

If you find yourself pulled beyond all practicality toward doing something -- writing poetry, building a business, restoring old cars, planting a secret garden; if at four in the morning the right word comes to you, the perfect flower to plant in that particular spot -- you are playing your invisible instrument.

Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.

Angels are speaking to all of us ... some of us are only listening better. -ANONYMOUS

Can you see Alaska from here?" "No." "But you know it's there, right? And you can't see your heart, but you feel it beat, right? That's what faith is about. We believe in what we can't see. Instead, we look for signs.

The idea that any art is achieved 'intuitively' is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the traditions of the artist, and a classification of said artist as subhuman. It is those supposed incapable of intelligence, training, or connection with a tradition who are described as working by instinct or intuition.