Quotes About Intuition

I actually try and work before my mind is telling me what to do.

I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning.

You can't just say, "I'm gonna have style." You have to work at it. It's intuitive; some people have it, and some people can work on it all day long, and it will never happen.

The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted.

You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.

Stick to your instincts.

I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.

It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but one sticks out for some reason.

I write from my stomach.

I'm probably one of the worst actors as far as preparation goes, because I actually don't prepare. I find it easier to read the script and whatever hits me in my stomach, like deep down, I just go with it. And the director kind of molds me whether to go right or left with it.

I work more with my stomach than my brain.

'Rolling Stone,' my first single, was only a hit in Portugal, but when we recorded my second single, 'Can The Can,' I got that hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck feeling, and I knew it would be huge. It topped the charts in the U.K. and Australia in 1973, and I got my first gold disc.

When you see U2 or the Rolling Stones, after years of knowing each other, they don't have to look at each other to connect.