Quotes About Intuition

I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.

You can't predict the future, and you've got to go with your gut on these things, and I'm sure if you speak to a laundry list of CEOs and people who have gone through the startup process themselves, they'll say it's an endless hurdle race, and you are inevitably going to catch your legs on hurdles, and it's just how you roll with that.

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

I've said many times that I'm not one of those people who check statistics, follows history, and says, 'If I do this, what will happen.'

Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.

Pretty much any artist that I know of that has found that mentor status, if they're generous and okay to bestow a bit of mentor-type information, it's do what you feel, not what you think.

At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time.

I've always worked at a steady pace, listening to my heart.

I listen to my body. Some days all I want is a good steak and others, I crave veggies and quinoa.

Offensively, I have a high basketball IQ, I look to get everyone involved, set screens, take charges, get steals; all of the little things.

Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.

You gotta go with your gut. It will never steer you wrong.

I have never planned my career. I never wanted to be an actress. Films were an instinctive step, just like modelling and television.

I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something and I tend to feel like it's leading me and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.

I think that instead of laying out ahead of time where my career is going to go, I try to make decisions that feel like they're the best steps for me in that moment.

Mathematics and Poetry are... the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.

When we act on our spontaneous judgment, we are almost always better off.

Whereas the logical mode of thought can only manipulate the world view of given paradigm, intuition can inspire genuine creativity, since it is not shackled by the nagging analytical mind, which often serves only to intimidate imaginative thought.

According to Ch'an (and Zen), understanding comes only by ignoring the intellect and heeding the instincts, the intuition.

the only way to really understand the message is to stop trying to "understand" it.

That end is an intuitive realization of a single great insight—that we and the world around are one, both part of a larger encompassing absolute. Our rational intellect merely obscures this truth, and consequently we must shut it off, if only for a moment. Rationality constrains our mind; intuition releases it.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

might just as well ask how you knew how to do the things you did.

Creativeness is the ability to see relationships where none exist.