Quotes About Intuition

When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.

The truth is, no one is like Columbo.

A vision could put you on a path you don't want to follow.

Many times I can see a solution to something differently and quicker than other people. I see the end zone and say 'This is where I want to go.'

As an actor, I feel like I'm somebody who, when somebody gives me a mark, I don't want to hit it. I don't like that. But then, without even knowing it, I just hit it.

I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.

It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by.

Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what's true for you about something, look to how you're feeling about it.

I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming.

I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not.

I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'

When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want.

I have a thing - I call it magic - but I feel like I can write stuff down in the middle of the night and wake up and it happens. I write what I want in my journal.

If you feel like eating, eat. Let your body tell you what it wants.

It is hard to predict what I want in a partner. It's more about what the universe brings to me, and what I feel is right.

Stop trying to figure out what is 'best' for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.

That's the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You're done when you don't want to do it anymore.

You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.

Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.

He found a stuffed animal, a fluffy wolf with bright blue eyes, and was immediately drawn to it. "I want to get this for her. It is telling me it needs to go home with us." Francesca laughed at him.

What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.

Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.