Intuition Quotes - Page 33

• Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes muddled by mere wordplay, affirming this one aspect and denying all the rest. The pivot of Tao passes through the center where all affirmations and denials converge. He who grasps the pivot is at the still-point from which all movements and oppositions can be seen in their right relationship... Abandoning all thought of imposing a limit or taking sides, he rests in direct intuition.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Expression, Opposites

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• A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments and an intuition so instantaneous that, when formulated, it acquires the finality of something that could never have been otherwise. But it is also the rhythm of time that passes with no other aim than to let feelings and thoughts settle down, mature, and shed all impatience or ephemeral contingency.

  Italo Calvino

  Feelings, Ephemeral, Mercury

  Italo Calvino (1988). “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, p.54, Harvard University Press

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• You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes; that's what intuition is.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Moving, Sometimes, Feels Right

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• If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.

  Eleanor Clark

  Weed, Food, Love Life

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• There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition

  Tom Ford

  Wrong Answers, Answers

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• Your intuition will most likely push you gently toward taking some appropriate risks and trying new things.

  Shakti Gawain

  Risk, Trying, Appropriate

  Shakti Gawain (2009). “Developing Intuition: Practical Guidance for Daily Life: Easyread Large Edition”, p.106, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much.
  Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful.
  And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.

  Seth Godin

  Hands, Insightful, Helping

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• No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

  Alan Arkin

  Book, Reading, Fifty

  "Alan Arkin: Random Advice from an Older Gentleman". www.esquire.com. January 31, 2013.

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• I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Projects

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

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• Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within.

  Pharrell Williams

  Thinking, People, Rooms

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

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• Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason.

  Russell Kirk

  Men, Decision, Prejudice

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.38, Regnery Publishing

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• I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

  Graham Hancock

  Past, Trying, Stories

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• Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what they report is the degree of their experiences. Intellect
  wishes to arrange — intuition wishes to accept.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Artist, Wish, Degrees

  "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 167, 1988.

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• My vision is a world of accessible intuition.

  Viola Spolin

  Vision, World

  Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.11, Northwestern University Press

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• Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.

  Max Bill

  Taken, Creating, Yield

  Max Bill, Eduard Hüttinger, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1978). “Max Bill”

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• By learning to contact, listen to, and act on our intuition, we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it to become our guiding force.

  Shakti Gawain

  Inspirational, Force, Higher Power

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, p.10, New World Library

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• Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Humble, Ideas

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.194, David R. Godine Publisher

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• I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.

  Ansel Adams

  Fall, Taken, Past

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• If you really don't know where to start or if you're stuck, start generating random connections and allow your intuition to tell you if one might lead somewhere interesting.

  John Cleese

  Interesting, Connections, Might

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• Memory and intention and intuition are fused. The iron is always hot.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Memories, Iron, Hot

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• It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and rhythm, these basic forms of beauty, supplemented if necessary by other direct lines or curves, can become a work of art, as strong as it is true.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Strong, Curves

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• A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a breakthrough to be able to move ahead.

  Robert Bateman

  Cheer, Attitude, Moving

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• The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Light, Growth

  Matthew Arnold (1894). “Mixed Essays: Irish Essays and Others”

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• Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp.

  Max Planck

  Knowledge, Mean, Science

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• You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Believe, Heart

  Steve Jobs' Commencement Address at Stanford University, news.stanford.edu. June 14, 2005.

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