"It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying."
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"And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation."
"Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn't lie."
"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge."
"Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments."
"Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition."
"For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are."
"I do think men fear female intuition."
"The novice trader is at a disadvantage because the intuitions that he is going to have about the market are going to be the ones that are typical of beginners. The expert is someone who sees beyond those typical responses and has an understanding of the deeper workings of the market."
"For me, intuition comes from experience. After years of experience, a person will have, if they have been paying attention and revising their thinking and behavior, intuitions about their area of experience."
"Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life."
"The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition."
"The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing."
"A few strong instincts and a few plain rules."
"One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I'm feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural."
"A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us"
"I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling."
"Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices."
"I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen what happens when people act on intuition, or for illogical reasons. Sometimes the results are ludicrous and embarrassing; more often they are simply horrible. But here I am, just the same, behaving like a crackbrained crystal gazer."
"Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion."