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Quotes About Intuition

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.
~ Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.
~ Rajneesh
Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Music is the ultimate teacher.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The important things were sensitivity to impressions, intuitive judgment, character assessment, and also patient bargaining skills. It had never so much as occurred to him to jump over walls or leap from roof to roof.
~ Amos Oz
When we were speaking on the phone, I envisioned not a distinct person with a face and body, but rather a vague, faceless essence, as if their whole personality manifested itself into an aura that wasn't exactly physical as we know it.
~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal
If I can push out my inhibitions, I will have access to intuitions
~ Amy Tan
The best metaphors appear unexpectedly out of the deep blue by means of intuition and my infatuation with nuance.
~ Amy Tan
Even when they did not look at each other or speak to each other, he could feel a powerful current between them.
~ Anais Nin
I have raged at the wall growing between myself and others. I expect intuitive, miraculous understanding, or else I'm disillusioned and don't want to struggle to make things clear.
~ Anais Nin
As soon as I kiss him I know that I love him with a blind instinct beyond all reason, with all his defects.
~ Anais Nin
She is suspicious of words. She lives by her senses, by her intuition. We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. How are you going to tell about them?
~ Anais Nin
I thought of my difficulties with writing, my struggles to articulate feelings not easily expressed. Of my struggles to find a language for intuition, feelings, instincts which are, in themselves, elusive, subtle, and wordless.
~ Anais Nin
For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, intuition, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.
~ Anais Nin
For the writer the conscious mind may be the great inhibitor, the great censor. This conscious mind is created by social mores, education, environment, family pressures, and conventions. For creativity it is necessary to work with the unconscious which accumulates pure experience, reactions, impressions, intuitions, images, memories—an unconscious freed from the negative effect of societal evaluations. The conscious mind can only act later as critic, selector, discarder.
~ Anais Nin
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
~ Andre Gide
I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
~ Andre Gide
Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.
~ Andre Agassi
Moltabano, for a moment, felt moved. That astonishing, wholly feminine capacity for deep understanding, for penetrating one's feelings, for being at once mother and lover, daughter and wife.
~ Andrea Camilleri
these new means always end up complicating things instead of making them easier? It was the same with medicine. Doctors had lost their "clinical eye" and relied only on test results. Meanwhile the police were losing their intuition and passively accepting scientific findings.
~ Andrea Camilleri
An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
But how can I put a name to what it is that I want? How am I to know that I really don't want what I want, or that I really don't want what I don't want? These are intangibles that the moment you name them their meaning evaporates like jellyfish in the sun.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Let your instincts contribute to your performance.
~ Andrew Hunt