Quotes About Intuition

I did not see the wolf when he came. I did not hear him. There was only this: A little before dawn I became aware of a hush, and I realized that the only breathing to be heard in the room was my own.

Reason said it was wasn't long enough. Instinct said it was.

And I suspect that, to the eyes of love, love shows. I knew about you as well as about myself, almost from the beginning.

What do children know? They know who they are, she said, in ways we can't know and they can't tell us.

The desert was clairvoyant, this is what he'd always believed, that the landscape unravels and reveals, it knows future as well as past.

Don't we know when a death is passing in the air?

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Perceived affordances help people figure out what actions are possible without the need for labels or instructions.

the proper natural mapping requires no diagrams, no labels, and no instructions.

Most expert, skilled behavior works this way, whether it is playing tennis or a musical instrument, or doing mathematics and science. Experts minimize the need for conscious reasoning. Philosopher

That experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. Because

That experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

The Shark and the Flipper need to have the ability to recognize the signs, interpret them correctly, and then act without hesitation.

I ask and I ask and I ask, until I begin to get a gut feeling about something. And that's when I make a decision.

You can call it God or a conscience, or you can dismiss it as that intuitive knowing we all have as human beings, as living storytellers; but there is a knowing I feel that guides me toward better stories, toward being a better character. I believe there is a writer outside ourselves, plotting a better story for us, interacting with us, even, and whispering a better story into our consciousness.

You can call it God or a conscience, or you can dismiss it as that intuitive knowing we all have as human beings, as living storytellers; but there is a knowing I feel that guides me toward better stories, toward being a better character.

A hunch is a deduction your subconscious has made from evidence you don't yet know you have.

I guess it's about trust. Trusting what you feel. Trusting the person who inspired those feelings with the weight of them and all they could mean.

Brunetti didn't like knowing that she was right.

overly sensitive to the souls of rooms and objects, the emanations

Because—isn't it drilled into us constantly, from childhood on, an unquestioned platitude in the culture—? From William Blake to Lady Gaga, from Rousseau to Rumi to Tosca to Mister Rogers, it's a curiously uniform message, accepted from high to low: when in doubt, what to do? How do we know what's right for us? Every shrink, every career counselor, every Disney princess knows the answer: "Be yourself." "Follow your heart.

Things will come to you and you're not going to know exactly how they fit in. You have to trust in the way they all fit together, that your subconscious knows what you're doing.

I knew it deeply and irrationally like knowledge in a dream.

The important thing to note is that we humans have the power to "see," to be directly aware of, to directly experience a wide range of things, many of which are not subject to sensory awareness with the five senses.