Intuitive Thinking Quotes

One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

I don't use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it's never because I use my brain.

A lot of the math that I do, it's not sort of premeditated. I talk online or with a colleague, and I get interested, and I just follow where it leads.

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

We’re not used to calculating large amounts of data. Our brains think anecdotally.

Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.

Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you.

That's what a lot of people say, especially in college, it looked like I'm lackadaisical out there, like I'm not really paying attention. If I'm always tense, I'm going to be overthinking the game. I try to just go with the flow.

Creative processes are always very opaque. Afterwards, you tend to pretend that everything was planned and it was a strategy, but it was not like that at all.

I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.

Many times, my intuition wins. I trust my intuition a lot. A lot.

An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.

We Deols think from the heart. We lack business acumen.

To use your head, you have to go out of your mind.

I never ask myself how I do what I do. After all, how does it rain?

This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.

Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.