Quotes About Intuition

Gavin de Becker had written a great book on the topic—The Gift of Fear.

She's a bargirl. You don't know where her loyalties lie. That one was unconvincing. No one had directed her against me—I was the one who had been pursuing her. She hadn't needed to warn me about the bugs. My gut told me she wasn't dissembling.

I think women are closer to God than we are. They walk right out there like they know what they're doing.

Prophecy is the gift of God and everyone has a smidge of it.

He had an instinct for mischief in his head, just as some people have a way with numbers or a clear sense of direction.

All I have is intuition and a little hope." "Don't be such a pessimist. You've also got two tires, two garbage bags, and a hollow spindle.

the secret of chanting is in the listening, not the voicing, and a circuit is completed between mind and heart that opens intuition and gently increases the volume of the still small voice within.

the third eye... our sacred Cyclops... our good eye, the only one that can see beyond our conditioned ways of seeing. It is, of course, a knowing eye, not a seeing one. It is the eye through which we look within to experience the universe unfolding. It is the single eye that concentrates duality into the One: the eye of insight, the locus of the point of remembrance on the ascent to death, as well as the point of forgetfulness on the descent into birth.

The thing I learned is that you don't invent your mission, you detect it. You uncover it, as it were.

Se ha demostrado que la toma de decisiones más se basa en las emociones y en las suposiciones que en la lógica.

Clever be the tongue that can speak without talking. - old saying

didn't need to wallow with the pigs to know it stunk in the pen.

The buddha-dharma … is about directly seeing Truth, prior to forming any ideas about it. It is about responding to each particular situation as it comes … , not according to some … program of dos and don'ts.

I'm smart enough to know that Elizabeth had no doubt seen dozens of men leap over curbs without her falling in love with the leaper, but I do believe this: When an endeavor is special in a person's life, others discern it intuitively and appreciate it more, like the praise a child receives for a lumpy clay sculpture. And as ordinary as such an event might be, it can be instilled with uncommon power.

When a man is immediately overwhelmed by you, warning signals should go off in your brain. Here's what they should say: This man responds more to fantasy than he does to reality.

Another cardinal rule of thinking like a child: don't be afraid of the obvious.

He drew maps in his head, looking for patterns, looking for clues.

Hunches that don't connect are doomed to stay hunches.

Even though we don't teach this particular skill in school, and we barely have a vocabulary to describe it, our mindreading abilities play a key role in our work and relationship successes, our sense of humor, our social ease.

If you're trying to "transform reality" you need to give your ideas the time they need to mature; don't just look for sudden epiphanies. Cultivate your hunches.

Creativity has a brain wave signature as well: alpha waves pulsing out of the brain's right hemisphere.

His em-tracking machinery is driven by words more than images, but that's only his make and model. Empathy is related to intuition, and intuition is individually customized, tuned to dominant talents. Chefs need tastes, painters images. His experience is biblical: It starts with logos.

The errors could have been avoided by mentally moving the who or whom back into the gap and sounding out the sentence (or, if your intuitions about who and whom are squishy, inserting he or him in the gap instead).

Si algo tenían en común los pensadores ilustrados era su insistencia en que apliquemos enérgicamente el estándar de la razón a la comprensión de nuestro mundo y no recurramos a generadores de engaño como la fe, el dogma, la revelación, la autoridad, el carisma, el misticismo, la adivinación, las visiones, las corazonadas o el análisis hermenéutico de los textos sagrados.