Quotes About Intuition

There are so many things, he said quietly, that we can't see but that we believe in, so many places that seem to possess an unaccountable feeling, a presence, an absence. Sometimes it takes time to learn this, like a child who suddenly realizes for the first time that the ball he threw over the fence has not disappeared.

enough to get someone to tell him the

Don't you sense the danger?' I whispered to her. 'Can't you breathe it like the air?

Are you certain we're going in the right direction?" He let out an irritated growl. "I'm not certain of anything. I was going on instinct." "Instinct being that you do the opposite of what I suggest?

It wasn't what you said, he told her.It was how I felt when you said it.

You wake in the morning, you're feeling fine, but all at once you think, "Something's not right. Something's off somewhere; what is it?" And then you remember that it's your child—whichever one is unhappy.

You wake in the morning, you're feeling fine, but all at once you think, "Something's not right. Something's off somewhere; what is it?" And then you remember that it's your child—whichever one is unhappy. She circled the hall to close the door to

was just, seems like, born knowing how. He can figure

Coming here had not been a mistake. Willa couldn't say exactly how she knew that, but she did.

You wake in the morning, you're feeling fine, but all at once you think, "Something's not right. Something's off somewhere; what is it?" And then you remember

He was lying; I could hear it the way you hear a tune and you know how it goes. I wondered how many times I'd heard him lie, to know so well what it sounded like.

Edward Crosby Johnson II, who in the 1950s established Fidelity as a dominant investment firm and made the same point in his own way: "The market is like a beautiful woman—endlessly fascinating, endlessly complex, always changing, always mystifying. I have been absorbed and immersed since 1924 and I know this is no science. It is an art…. It is personal intuition.

It is women who possess knowledge of dreams and of realms beyond the earthly experience.

The analysis, based on past events, certainly seems sound. But following your instincts is the only way you're going to do something unsound.

When you meet someone, you need to have a superpower.

Our classical intuition tells us that analog computation is intrinsically continuous and digital computation is intrinsically discrete. As with many other classical intuitions, this one is incorrect when applied to quantum computation. Analog quantum computers and digital quantum computers are one and the same device.

he wanted to and she wanted him to, whether she fully realized it yet or not.

Yet Laplace had built his probability theory on intuition. As far as he was concerned, essentially, the theory of probability is nothing but good common sense reduced to mathematics. It provides an exact appreciation of what sound minds feel with a kind of instinct, frequently without being able to account for it.

That's why you brought me here, isn't it? You knew I wouldn't fu*k her. I suspected. It was a gamble. If you'd touch her, I would have known that you wern't in love with Kimber.

While walking through a dark season, if we attempt to navigate our lives by what we feel, we will run aground onto the rocks. We must navigate by what we

You have to notice people to be that sure about them.

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

I heard it on the wind. I heard it from the birds. I felt it in the sunlight.

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong." Wow