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Quotes About Intuition

Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.
~ Fred L. Turner
Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
~ Freeman Thomas
Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
~ Friedrich Schlegel
Our knowledge is always incomplete, and our brains always misinterpret so much, that the only thing we can truly trust is intuition.
~ Brad Warner
My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person. She goes completely on her feelings of things, on her intuition, and so she instilled that in my brothers and I.
~ Brandon Boyd
A person knows when they're in darkness, even when they can't see. -Nightblood
~ Brandon Sanderson
Saints ans Stars... I´d built my entire gut response to this person on the fact that they couldn´t smile right
~ Brandon Sanderson
Librarians seemed to have a sixth sense for noticing when students were doing things they weren't supposed to.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You have a plan?" she asked. "There isn't much time for a plan. This is more of a hunch with scaffolding.
~ Brandon Sanderson
There isn't much time for a plan. This is more of a hunch with scaffolding.
~ Brandon Sanderson
A child's instincts are often the most honest.
~ Brandon Sanderson
A storm is not an object like a box or a tree. Even to the more scientifically-minded, storms are more notion than numbers. When does a drizzle become a downpour, and when does a downpour become a storm? There's no firm line. It's about how you feel.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Intuition is not a single way of knowing—it's our ability to hold space for uncertainty and our willingness to trust the many ways we've developed knowledge and insight, including instinct, experience, faith, and reason.
~ Brene Brown
Cultivating intuition and trusting faith: letting go of the need for certainty 6. Cultivating creativity: letting go of comparison 7. Cultivating play and rest: letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth 8. Cultivating calm and stillness: letting go of anxiety as a lifestyle 9. Cultivating meaningful work: letting go of self-doubt and "supposed to" 10. Cultivating laughter, song, and dance: letting go of being cool and "always in control
~ Brene Brown
Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist: "… intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.
~ Brene Brown
what silences our intuitive voice is our need for certainty. Most of us are not very good at not knowing. We like sure things and guarantees so much that we don't pay attention to the outcomes of our brain's matching process.
~ Brene Brown
psychologists believe that intuition is a rapid-fire, unconscious associating process—like a mental puzzle.2 The brain makes an observation, scans its files, and matches the observation with existing memories, knowledge, and experiences. Once it puts together a series of matches, we get a "gut" on what we've observed.
~ Brene Brown
The fact is that in two unhappy years, working in isolation except for Gosling, in a field new to her, she had come within two steps of answering the most exciting question in post-war science. What is more, she, unknowingly, had provided all the essential data for those who took the two brilliant leaps of intuition — to anti-parallel chains and base pairs — that cracked the problem.
~ Brenda Maddox
Sometimes parents don't know their children, he thought. But sometimes a parent knows her child better than anyone else, and
~ Henning Mankell
One has to be able to trust people. Or rather, one has to be able to rely on one's own judgement.
~ Henning Mankell
We seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
~ Henri Bergson
Jesus, of course, had this capacity to see truly. For example, Saint John tells us, Jesus did not want to entrust himself to them because he knew what was in every heart (John 2:24). Such intuitive and perceptive knowledge is the nature of discernment.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Friends are born,not made
~ Henry Adams
No man ever followed his genius til it misled him.
~ Henry David Thoreau