Intuition Quotes - Page 31

• I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite of themselves offer possibilities to be more than they are a photograph of nothing very important at all, nothing but an intuition, a response, a twitch from the photographer’s experience.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Beautiful, Important, Cameras

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• Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should – and must – question everything generally thought to be obvious. They must have an intuition for people’s changing attitudes. For the reality in which they live, for their dreams, their desires, their worries, their needs, their living habits. They must also be able to assess realistically the opportunities and bounds of technology.

  Dieter Rams

  Dream, Attitude, Creativity

  "Dieter Rams/ Profile". designmuseum.org.

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• We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things — our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay school teachers. But unless we start testing those intuitions, we’re not going to do better.

  Dan Ariely

  Teacher, Strong, Motivation

  "Our buggy moral code". The TED Interview, www.ted.com. February, 2009.

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• If you do not listen to your intuition, it will stop talking to you. Your intuition is like a sensitive friend. If you question it, censor it, judge it, it gets hurt and becomes silent.

  Michele Cassou

  Hurt, Talking, Judging

  Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.85, Penguin

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• Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

  Torsten Wiesel

  Passion, Knowing, Important

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• Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

  Morris Kline

  Education, Knowledge, Math

  Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.408, Oxford University Press

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• It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

  Henri Poincare

  Math, Logic, Criticize

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.746, Modern Library

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• An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list of symbols, an explicit set of rules governing their cohabitation, an explicit list of axioms, and, above all, an explicit list of rules explicitly governing the steps that the mathematician may take in going from assumptions to conclusions. No appeal to meaning nor to intuition. Symbols lose their referential powers; inferences become mechanical.

  David Berlinski

  Eye, Hands, May

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition. It has become a very strange and perhaps frightening subject from the ordinary point of view, but anyone who penetrates into it will find a veritable fairyland, a fairyland which is strange, but makes sense, if not common sense.

  Edward Kasner

  Math, Views, Common Sense

  Edward Kasner, James Newman (2013). “Mathematics and the Imagination”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Dream, Believe, Ignorance

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• Trust your intuition, rather than technology, to protect you from violence.

  Tom Butler-Bowdon

  Technology, Violence, Protect You

  Tom Butler-Bowdon (2010). “50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do: Insight and Inspiration from 50 Key Books”, p.20, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• If you're going to be an entrepreneur... it's not all textbook. It's gut feeling, it's intuition, it's a feeling you have that you can do this and make it happen. I think you have to have a personality.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Thinking, Personality, Entrepreneur

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• This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another.

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Passion, Heart, Mind

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• There are three principles to remember if you are to teach a human being anything, and they are consistency, consistency, consistency.They are such fragile creatures to begin with, with poor eyes, poorer hearing, and no sense of smell left to speak of, it's no wonder they are made of fear. Some centuries ago they moved inside and with that move went nine-tenths of their intuition. It is almost unmerciful to make them live so long when they spend their lives in so much pain.

  Pam Houston

  Pain, Moving, Eye

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• When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Art, Mean, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lover cannot be chosen a la smorgasbord. A lover has to be chosen from soul-craving. To choose just because something mouthwatering stands before ou will never satisfy the hunger of the soul-self. And that is what the intuition is for; it is the direct messenger of the soul.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Self, Soul, Messengers

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• The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed if it is to be communicated, and its actuality is inexpressible except in some hint or parallel which will stimulate the dormant intuition of the reader.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Vision, Hints, Dormant

  Evelyn Underhill (2002). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• Intuition works best when you remember that “tuition” is part of it. You need to have paid ahead of time (ie done your prep work) so as to prepare the ground for intuition.

  Jane Yolen

  Needs, Done, Remember

  "For Writers". janeyolen.com. 2007.

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• Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Imagination, Weak, Linear

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• Don't ever second-guess a strong feeling that you have. Trust your gut.

  Allison DuBois

  Strong, Feelings, Trust Your Gut

  Allison DuBois (2008). “Don't Kiss Them Goodbye”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Song, Vibrations, Wanted

  Shirley MacLaine (1987). “It's all in the playing”, Bantam

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• It's triumphant for someone to wake up to life. I feel a tremendous sense of liberation. You want to be able to use both your intuitive side and your go-get-'em side with no blame.

  Meg Ryan

  Wake Up, Ems, Use

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• We all have an inner teacher, an inner guide, an inner voice that speaks very clearly but usually not very loudly. That information can be drowned out by the chatter of the mind and the pressure of day-to-day events. But if we quiet down the mind, we can begin to hear what we're not paying attention to. We can find out what's right for us.

  Dean Ornish

  Teacher, Voice, Mind

  Dean Ornish, M.D. (2010). “Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs orSurgery”, p.110, Ivy Books

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• I listened to that voice inside me-... Everyone has an inner voice; you just have to listen to it and trust it in order to be led by it. I did that, and it gave me the ability to live a life that's true to who I am and what I really wanted.

  Sissy Spacek

  Who I Am, Order, Voice

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• Notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. The result is usually increased energy and power, and a sense of things flowing.

  Shakti Gawain

  Feelings, Energy, Results

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.180, Mango Media Inc.

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