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Quotes About Intuition

I didn't make 'The Sixth Sense' because I thought the ending wouldn't work!
~ Amy Pascal
Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.
~ Andrew Flintoff
I think the good news for me in life is that I really trust my instincts when I come to work. Maybe less in life and in love, but in work and in comedic beats, I feel pretty confident.
~ Ari Graynor
There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.
~ Austin Kleon
Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don't work.
~ Bill Hader
Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
~ Cheryl Strayed
If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.
~ Chris Lilley
Well, intuition isn't much help in police work. Facts are what we need.
~ Crane Wilbur
Some of my work is very instinctive, some of my favourite things I've ever done are just two minute sketches, nothing is better when you get it like that so quick, then other work takes months.
~ Danny Fox
I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.
~ Edward Weston
I was one of the few people who thought Star Wars was going to work, and I hadn't even seen any special effects.
~ Harrison Ford
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
~ Honore de Balzac
I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.
~ Isabel Lucas
Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
~ Jackson Pollock
Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into it.
~ James Frain
Intuition works best when you remember that "tuition" is part of it. You need to have paid ahead of time (ie done your prep work) so as to prepare the ground for intuition.
~ Jane Yolen
Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.
~ Jean Cocteau
I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level.
~ Jerry Uelsmann
I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.
~ Ziggy Marley
I am not intellectually choosy. My choice of films reflect who I am, but it is not done with strategy and planning. I hear something and go by my intuition.
~ Nithya Menen
I basically just write stream of consciousness to a certain extent. I let the song kind of go where it wants to go.
~ Julia Holter
Sometimes when you start writing a song, you dont know where theyre going to lead you. You just kind of follow the ideas that come in. Its all kind of stream of consciousness. Thats whats so fascinating about songwriting. Its kind of magical.
~ Mike Campbell
I've learned to go with your instincts. To go with your strengths and believe in yourself.
~ Jeanine Pirro
I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
~ Jack Keane