Quotes About Intuition

The ultimate intuitions and insights will only approach one who lives in his work and remains there, and whoever considers them from afar gains no power over them.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instinct, and never hope more than you work

I am hearing all the secret whisperings of the world!

But I am hearing all the secret whisperings of the world!

While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men— a great reader of men.

He could follow someone's mind around, and get where it was going before the other fellow knew where it was going.

Me, I had never been sure – only thing I was sure of was that Dr. Chan would not himself sit on a target. But he might not warn his old mother.

Girls are interesting, Mike; they can reach conclusions with even less data than you can.

Absolute Laws in the Platonic sense cannot be known scientifically — as Plato himself realized. They can only be known (or imagined) by intuition or by some Act of Faith. Empirically and existentially, nobody knows today, right now, if we have any Absolute Laws in our intellectual common market. All that we know is that we have some models that work a lot better, practically, than some of the older models we have discarded.

There are times when you must stop analyzing and depend on your emotions.

So when it comes to Elvis and Joe, I have to trust my instincts, because they've gotten me here. And I have to write what I believe in, what I find moving.

Stemms sniffed the air loudly, like a dog catching a scent. "I'm smelling bullshit." Harvey spoke again, voice mellow and calm, like a jazz man at two in the morning. "Relax, Jesse. What does she look like? Describe her.

As the great physicist Max Planck put it, scientists "must have a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by an artistically creative imagination.

Although time is the critical factor in attaining Mastery and this intuitive feel, the time we are talking about is not neutral or simply quantitative. An hour of Einstein's thinking at the age of sixteen does not equal an hour spent by an average high school student working on a problem in physics. It is not a matter of studying a subject for twenty years, and then emerging as a Master. The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel.

Takes a donkey to know a donkey.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But they are things that, well, you just have to see and feel. p.147

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you'll learn from books. But, there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel.

Bagaimana dia bisa dengan begitu mudah membaca pikiranku, sementara aku tidak tahu setengah pun dari isi kepalanya? Padahal akulah yang mengenyam bangku sekolah, yang bisa membaca dan menulis. Akulah yang pintar. Hassan tidak mampu membaca buku pelajaran untuk kelas satu, namun dia mampu membaca banyak hal yang tersembunyi dalam diriku. Meresahkan memang, tapi rasanya cukup nyaman memiliki seseorang yang selalu mengetahui kebutuhanmu.

In my experience, men who understand women as well as you seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

We are of the mysterious East. No proof, just faith. No reason, just faith.

Love is blind, and blind is dangerous.

He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart.