Quotes About Intuition

We have the intuition that when the world tells us our beliefs need updating, when new information conflicts with a belief we have, we will resolve that conflict by changing our belief. But all too often, like the cult members, we rationalize away the new information so we can defend our prior belief and stick to it.

Je voyais, de plus, que mon intuition avait dû être juste : c'est à la mi-mai que « quelque chose » s'est passé (de même que quelque chose a eu lieu vers la fin novembre), le détachant définitivement de moi.

Comme la plupart des parents, les miens s'imaginaient détecter infailliblement au premier coup d'Å"il le moindre signe de dérive.

You trust your mother, but you cut the cards.

I have learned to feel my way through life, personally and professionally.

We buy and sell goods. We buy low and sell higher - that's what we all do to make a profit. But I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.

So you can have your program, but you also have to be ready to change it immediately because there are certain kinds of people who like certain kinds of songs and they like - some people want to dance when you come out, some people just want to be intimate with you. So you kind of feel your way through a show.

I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.

It's a pretty intuitive process, picking the projects that I want to get involved with.

With this album, I tried not to think too much. If I heard a song that I loved, I promised myself I wouldn't over-think it. If I loved it and if I wanted to cut it, I would.

Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.

I love having my cards read - if you go to a proper place, they wouldn't dream of telling you anything awful that is going to happen.

People think I'm some kind of prophet, but I'm not someone who gets my information from the ether. I've been given the coordinates about how things work.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

I have known Che for seven years. We were very good friends. One fine day, he proposed. I had a gut feeling that Che was the right person and that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him.

She needs a prophet's skill to sort out the man whose bed she shares.

He saw her before he saw anything else in the room.

I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.

I try to say what I feel Without thinking about what I feel. I try to place words right next to my idea So that I won't need a corridor Of thought leading to words.

Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to feel.

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