"When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable."
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"Use your own intuition. You are tomorrow."
"Our first intuitions are the true ones."
"You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating."
"You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide."
"Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls."
"Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it."
"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."
"I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition."
"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."
"Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing."
"A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself."
"A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions, surmises, fancies, they stumble upon the right explanation, and have a knack of seizing it when it once comes within reach."
"All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us."
"Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition."
"I still believe that something is right only when it feels right."
"If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have."
"It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct."
"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."
"Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations."
"A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants."