Quotes About Intuition

The neuroscientist Nancy Andreasen has proposed "that the creative process is similar in artists and scientists, that it is highly intuitive, and that it may arise from unconscious or dreamlike mental states during which new links are created in the association cortices of the brain.

La gente debe enamorarse con los ojos cerrados.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

You have to do what your heart dictates, Vivian says. Do you believe that? Not sure, actually. It's always annoyingly inconvenient, isn't it, the thing about the heart?

I love you. I love him...I think you would love each other. But that math has failed me before.

But you seem to have a very strong intuition, which I share, that we should consider honesty to be a nearly ironclad principle, because it is to everyone's advantage so much of the time, and it allows us to live the kinds of lives and maintain the kinds of relationships we want to have.

Our present policy on human stem cells has been shaped by beliefs that are divorced from every reasonable intuition we might form about the possible experience of living systems.

An artist who is inspired is being obvious.

if I've learned one thing in my decades on earth, it's this: Don't argue with your lizard brain; it knows you better than you know yourself.

How do you choose your books?' my friends had asked. Less than a week into my project, I can now tell them the beginning of the truth. I don't always choose the books, I'll say. Sometimes the books choose me.

So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know.

There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.

Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.

You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try

But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.

Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.

If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood.

If this was my instinct talking, I didn"t want to hear what it was saying.

Roo had seen something in it, and recognized a part of me that matched. How could someone know you better than yourself? Especially if they really didn't know you, not at all.

Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just know.

Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just know." "My mother," I told him, pushing the cart farther up the aisle as he lagged along beside, taking long, loping steps, "doesn't even like scrambled eggs. She only eats eggs Benedict.

Strange how you could barely know a person and they were still able to bring out the worst in you.