Spike Jonze Quotes

Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.

I want to rely on my gut feeling. Isn't that what made great race drivers in the end?

If you're even on the fence about hiring someone, that person is a no. You have to feel it in your gut.

Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.

Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don't go back on it.

I live on my gut instinct.

When I go through hundreds of applications from people who all have very similar-sounding experience, cover letters are the only glimpse I have into a person's personality.

I'm a mathematician by education, but I have this other thing. A gut instinct.

My instinct is probably one of the strongest assets I've got, workwise.

I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.

When hiring, trust your feelings.

I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.

I don't make decisions with my head anymore. If I don't get the go ahead with my gut, I usually back out.

I'm not accomplished enough to over-analyze something, because I don't have the background as far as people who write and know how to break down a character or story and stuff. I mostly go by gut instincts.

There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project.

There has to be a level of intuition involved in what I do, and the more you use that intuition, the more honed it is.

We don't know the probabilities of future events. Still, you have to take action, and so you do it on gut feeling. That's the world we live in.

Most good players play on intuition. Everyone has a little, but I don't know if you can learn it.

I don't take very calculated decisions. I just follow my heart.

I am vibe oriented and am able to read people right most of the time.

I just followed my gut feeling when I went to Hyderabad in 2008.

I am someone that relies on my gut feeling.

I strongly believe that many of the best decisions are made on gut instinct.

People usually think with their brain or go with their heart, but a good place to start is if you have a gut feeling.