"Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right)."
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"The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God."
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"Intuition is the discriminative faculty that enables you to decide which of two lines of reasoning is right. Perfect intuition makes you a master of all."
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"For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody."
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"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition."
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"Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones."
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"Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction."
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"The situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides the answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition."
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"Intuition is the only true guide in life."
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"Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate."
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"I work on instinct. It's my best adviser."
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"Often you just have to rely on your intuition."
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"The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen."
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"Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal."
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"There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap."
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"We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action."
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"You should not take your intuitions at face value."
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"Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on."
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"A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge."
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"An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique andconsequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known."
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