Quotes About Intuition

Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non.

When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

When you change, you change with what you got. What I got is my speed. I got a little bit of my instinct and flair.

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

If you're supposed to be doing something, the spirits will come and help you. They have helped me out with lines I shouldn't have known, chords I shouldn't have known. Every once in a while I get lines from somewhere, and I think, I better write this down.

I absorb and sense energies around me at a very high level. Whether it's from living people, residual energy, objects or from spirits. I've been like this my entire life.

Ever since I was a little girl I've had this affinity to connect with spirits and talk to them.

I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help.

For me, spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than science.

There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.

I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.

I have always known a thing before it happens.

My right eye itches, some good luck is near.

A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.

Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.