Quotes About Intuition

When you trust your subconscious enough to put something in a story and then figure out why it really needed to be there later, when that works out, aye, that's the stuff.

Writing music - particularly music without lyrics - calls almost exclusively on the subconscious.

I learned over the years to trust that the subconscious is going to provide guidance.

When I wake up, if I can't figure something out during the daytime and then wake up at 4 A.M., it's there immediately. I don't know if it's the subconscious mind working, but it just happens.

I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

In June 1992, I discovered a lump in my breast. A subsequent mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy proved negative. But my instinct said it still didn't feel right, so I had a lumpectomy. I then got the news that it was cancer.

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

One of the things that women really excel at is reading and reacting to subtle cues. We've always had to do that because men don't have to.

I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them.

By relying on the statistical information rather than a gut feeling, you allow the data to lead you to be in the right place at the right time. To remain as emotionally free from the hurly burley of the here and now is one of the only ways to succeed.

For years, I didn't understand this rule of life. I was always resisting change. I used to be so stubborn that a house would have to burn down to get me out of it. Now I know better. I'm glad to say that I have become sensitive to when it's time to move on. I can read the signs, whether they're obvious or subtle, and usually get going without needing to experience heaviness or turmoil.

in the same sense in which Kant held that the empirical sciences depend on some mental abilities – intuition and categories

In the preface of his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant (1787/1933, B XVI) refers in the same way to the Copernican Revolution. He points out that for explaining the possibility of scientific knowledge about (physical) objects we have to reflect on central cognitive functions (intuition and categories). According to Piaget, however, the reversal of the attentional focus of the mind does not happen just once but several times – namely at every level transition.

Kant argued that our intuition (i.e., sensibility) and understanding use a priori (i.e., independent of all experience) forms and categories, which are the condition of the possibility for experiencing objectivity. Piaget subscribed to the ordering and organizing function of the mind, but he believed that the forms and categories are not a priori but undergo development as a result of the subject's interaction with the world (OI, pp. 376–395).

Love is wiser than wisdom.

A mother understands what a child does not say.

A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years.

After years of marriage, I have learned one thing: Trust a woman's intuition before a man's undeniable logic.

Everyone hears what you say, Friends listen to what you say, Best friends listen to what you dont say.

Faith is believeing in something That sometimes doesn't always seem logical.

Some hearts understand each other even in silence.

True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.

Good, he says, trust your judgement.

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.