Quotes About Intuition

System 1 continuously generates suggestions for System 2: impressions, intuitions, intentions, and feelings. If endorsed by System 2, impressions and intuitions turn into beliefs, and impulses turn into voluntary actions. When all goes smoothly, which is most of the time, System 2 adopts the suggestions of System 1 with little or no modification.

The prominence of causal intuitions is a recurrent theme in this book because people are prone to apply causal thinking inappropriately, to situations that require statistical reasoning.

System 1 is radically insensitive to both the quality and the quantity of the information that gives rise to impressions and intuitions.

intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment.

Much of the discussion in this book is about biases of intuition. However, the focus on error does not denigrate human intelligence, any more than the attention to diseases in medical texts denies good health.

The psychology of accurate intuition involves no magic. Perhaps the best short statement of it is by the great Herbert Simon, who studied chess masters and showed that after thousands of hours of practice they come to see the pieces on the board differently from the rest of us.

Claims for correct intuitions in an unpredictable situation are self-delusional at best, sometimes worse.

To survive in a creative economy, you need basic instinct! You have to know and smell your viewer.

I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I couldn't think in terms of structure, which is the whole point of deep focus.

I gambled when I left QPR to go to Aston Villa half-way through the season when we were winning every Championship game, and that paid off. You just get a sense inside you, and you have to go.

We can trust ourselves to know when our boundaries are being violated.

There's more than one way to sense violence.

I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just feel like I can.

Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions.

The best vision is insight.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

My sixth sense uses the other five senses to communicate. I may have a vision, hear a sound, get a smell, or have a physical sensation that corresponds with how someone passed. What I do revolves around noticing subtle differences in my mind and body - because they're messages.

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Wouldn't it be nice to be one of those people who doesn't overthink anything, who just goes with the flow—who lives the unexamined life?

What's your conscience?" "It's a meeting place for the things your heart feels and the things your head knows.