Quotes About Intuition

I think about the structure, sure. I think about what's going to happen, and how it's going to happen, and the pace. But I think if I stop to think about it in an abstract sense, I feel very daunted. I just try to enter into the story and feel my way through it. It's a very murky, intuitive way of going about it.

My gut is my No. 1 asset. I also like to draw from a lot of people, and I ask a lot of questions. I'll literally show my ideas to 500 different people and get their opinions, and, in the end, after digesting all their opinions, I just trust my gut.

It helps to be able to see things before your opponent. In futsal, you have less time to think so make decisions faster than most. You know what is coming. It may not always work, but an understanding is generated through futsal.

Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.

I mean, I'm always optimistic about most things I do and never bank my hopes on anything, but I got what 'Take Me Out' was right from the word go.

I didn't do 'Orange' because I knew it was good. I wanted to do this because it feels good. And I just knew that was the place I needed, wanted to be.

I used to be an open-spear fisherman, and if you're looking for fish, you're never going to see them. In an almost meditative state, you have to pick out anomalies, something out of the ordinary.

If it doesn't feel organic to the audience, you gotta trust your gut.

For me it's a very organic process. I read the script/hear a narration and pretty much know instantly if it's something I want to be a part of or not. It's really as simple as that.

Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.

Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly what it is that you are doing.

I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.

I never think too hard about a look. When you consider an outfit too much, that's when it goes wrong.

I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.

Call it a hunch; and hunches don't just materialise, you pay for them with hard-earned experience. No such thing as a free hunch.

When a situation feels dangerous to you, it's probably more safe than you know; when a situation feels safe, that is precisely when you should feel on guard.

Gut feelings help us filter the world, and what is taste, really, but a kind of cognitive mechanism for managing sensory overload? But

Those words—"Trust me, I'm a junkie"—should have been a clue right there.

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

eyes. "Trust only those who fear you more than God. You got one life to live and don't waste it second-guessing yourself.

This is a matter of feeling,' said Misabel. 'And such things can never be explained.

Haven't you ever been spooked by something everyone else thinks is a nonissue?

Social awareness is your ability to accurately pick up on emotions in other people and understand what is really going on with them.