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“If mothers are told to do this or that or the other,... they lose touch with their own ability to act.... Only too easily they feel incompetent. If they must look up everything in a book, they are always too late even when they do the right things, because the right things have to be done immediately. It is only possible to act at exactly the right point when the action is intuitive or by instinct, as we say. The mind can be brought to bear on the problem afterwards.”

Ifs Feels Mind Looks Book Done Problem Action Mother Loses Ability Bears Late Instinct Right Thing Look Up Too Late Intuitive Incompetent

Author:Donald Woods Winnicott

“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.”

Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction

“Carol Guess's poems are sexy, intuitive, angry, and hopeful. These lyrical narratives measure the impossibly small distance between love and fear. They are a reminder that we're all vulnerable little vessels filled by the people who can break us.”

People Littles Break Angry Filled Distance Sexy Vulnerable Narrative Hopeful Intuitive Reminders Vessel Lyrical Carols Love And Fear

Author:Zachary Schomburg

“It's intuitive in terms of when I read a piece of material or I hear about a project. I'm a writer, so I've written movies. I've read at this point thousands and thousands and thousands of screenplays. So if something gets me, then I don't ignore that.”

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Author:Matt Damon

“It feels like when I write, it's intuitive. This is true of Frances, and it's true of this [The Funniest Movie Of The Summer].”

Feels Writing Summer France Intuitive

Author:Greta Gerwig

“Women are incredibly intuitive. If anybody on the planet is going to evolve to the next level, that telekinetic thing, women will.”

Ifs Next Levels Planets Evolve Intuitive Next Level

Author:Robin Williams

“Dominant energy patterns that are contributing to the stress in a human being, are able to be picked up, if a person is open enough. And for me, as a medical intuitive, that's where I focus my attention. That's what the skill is all about.”

Ifs Humans Persons Enough Able Energy Human Beings Attention Focus Skills Stress Patterns Medical Dominant Intuitive Contributing

Author:Caroline Myss

“Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now.”

Way Humans Feelings Past Life Is Certain Imagination Human Beings Loss Ability Animal Quality Terror Disaster Indifference Streams Accurate Intuitive Rabbits Callousness

Book:Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

“I always begin with a source of inspiration that comes from nature. The story comes from my research, volunteering, and meeting the people involved in that story world. I am an intuitive writer and an image, sound, experience can all inspire a scene or a plot twist!”

People World Stories Inspiration Sound Inspire Source Involved Scene Research Meetings Plot Volunteer Twists Intuitive Source Of Inspiration Plot Twists

Author:Mary Alice Monroe

“I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights on my artwork and work with my hands and build props. Computers just take all that fun out of it [animation drawing].”

Needs Real Hands Light Fun Felt Creative Paper Computer Paint Drawing Pens Software Angle Intuitive Animation Props Artwork Paper And Pen

Author:Don Hertzfeldt

“Of course, when a poem is being born, the reasoning part of the brain throbs away at full throttle, but all the other areas are overlapping and interacting as well, the emotional, intuitive, animal areas.”

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Author:Michael Longley

“For me, intuitive thinking means associative thinking; intuition causes us to introduce narrative or figurative elements into a poem before we're able to explain why those elements belong.”

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Author:James Arthur

“Years ago I used to set my alarm for 4 am, so that I could wake up in the middle of a dream and move directly into writing. I guess my favorite poems contain a mixture of intuitive and analytical thought.”

Writing Years Dream Moving Used Middle Years Ago Wake Up My Favorite Intuitive Mixtures Alarms

Author:James Arthur

“The new female is competent in all that she chooses. She chooses whatever her heart tells her. She can create a business, lead a country, drive a truck, hammer nails, deliver mail, or raise a family. She is at home in every social and physical environment. She can be a housewife, if she chooses. She can be anything else, too. She is intuitive and heart centered. She is all that a female has been, and more.”

Ifs Heart Has Beens Country Home Social Business Environment Female Raises Mail Nails Intuitive Truck Hammers Competent Housewife

Author:Gary Zukav

“The intuitive magician will find a certain relationship between the earth zone and the muladhara center.”

Earth Certain Magic Zone Mysticism Magician Intuitive

Author:Franz Bardon

“I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person.”

Persons Political Scientist Intuitive Sociologists

Author:Anthony Scaramucci

“I think the gift of music is it's intuitive capability. I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. Because it's intuitive, the truth has to be defined intuitively. It can't be preached, it can't be pushed. It's got to normally go across organically and make someone feel something, and that's the power of music.”

Thinking Feels Artist Process Powerful Inspire Music Is Mediums Defined Capability Listeners Intuitive Back And Forth Power Of Music

Author:Serj Tankian

“To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.”

Men Way Mind Believe Facts Belief Imagination Our Lives Risk Ignorance Cells Locked Flash Hypothesis Intuitive Seals

Author:Lillian Smith

“When I draw it feels very natural - intuitive. I don't think about it, I just do it. My visual vocabulary is self-selecting and second nature to me. Writing is harder for me. It's something I struggle with. Drawing always comes first.”

Thinking Feels Writing Firsts Self Natural Struggle Draws Harder Drawing Visuals Vocabulary Intuitive Just Do It

Author:Arthur Jones

“I think music is an intuitive force. It's this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think music has the ability - when you listen to a song, you're not immediately thinking about the lyrics or what's going on in the mind of the writer, you're feeling the song.”

Thinking Mind Feelings Beautiful Song Force Ability Inspire Music Is Wave Intuitive

Author:Serj Tankian

“There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.”

Kind Character Actors Acting Method Notion All Kinds Coming Out Intuitive Method Acting

Author:Edward Norton

“The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.”

Writing Whole Process Intuitive Screenplays Visceral

Author:Ridley Scott

“If you give the same 200 frames to 200 different people, they'll all probably pick a different frame. The key is editing. Be intuitive enough to be shooting at the right moment, and when you're seeing the action happening just as you want it, shoot. And in the edit you have to go with your gut.”

People Ifs Want Giving Different Enough Moments Action Seeing Keys Happenings Picks Shooting Guts Editing Intuitive Different Peoples Edits Right Moment

Author:Russell James

“Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound. It's not trying to replace a band, per se. It's become a completely different thing. And it's not just simply an effect. It's just a very surprisingly intuitive thing.”

Way Trying Different Three Sound Effects Band Singing Different Ways Different Things Intuitive Violin Whistling

Author:Andrew Bird

“It's very intuitive, the way that I approach my work. I only buy something that has a pulse. I may not know how I'm going to use it, but I know it has a pulse and it has multiple readings - if I shift it one way or another, it can be read this way or it can be read that way, but both readings are critical and very much ground the work.”

Ifs Knows Way May Use Reading Know How Approach Critical One Way Multiple Intuitive Pulse

Author:Nick Cave

“I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.”

Wish Instruments Gifted Intuitive Playing Instruments

Author:Edward Norton

“The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.”

Problem Body Focus Stupid Crisis Your Body Clever Crash Intuitive Pumps Very Clever Very Stupid

Author:David Allen

“We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.”

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Author:Shakti Gawain

“Sometimes my doubt seems intuitive, but most likely it derives from an implausibility or a logical problem I may at first find difficult to identify and articulate. It is interesting to me to work through questions that arise in this way.”

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Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.”

Knows Heart Philosophy Whole Progress Evolution Standards Property Deny Being True Intuitive Evolution Of Life

Author:E. O. Wilson

“City planning finds its validation in the intuitive recognition that a burgeoning market society can not be trusted to produce spontaneously a habitable, sanitary, or even efficient city, much less a beautiful one.”

Beautiful Cities Produce Planning Recognition Efficient Trusted Can Not Intuitive Validation City Planning Sanitary

Author:Murray Bookchin

“A lamp kept on mound illumines the area; if kept in a pit, it is as if it were not. A virtue that is practised is a lamp that shines for all; good thoughts and good deeds have a way of influencing others. The gems of wisdom, the light of intuitive experience should not be kept away from fellow - men. They have to be shared, even at the cost od one's life. That was the lesson Jesus taught and symbolised.”

Ifs Men Way Should Light Jesus Virtue Influence Taught Lessons Cost Areas Fellows Shining Deeds Good Deeds Lamps Intuitive Fellow Man Pits Gems Good Thoughts

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“I was never really satisfied with writing only text or with the way my texts looked when they were published. Most online journals have a pretty lame sense of typography - bad font, counter-intuitive margins and line spacing - that it makes me sour on my writing.”

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Author:Masha Tupitsyn

“You're trying to make the language work, and your subconscious is being allowed to make the deeper, more profound connections. It's much better than going at it all frontally. But you can't conjure it in an intellectual way; it has to come out of another engagement, a more intuitive engagement. Revision is where the intellectual, analytical work happens. At least for me.”

Way Trying Happens Language Intellectual Connections Profound Deeper Engagement Subconscious Intuitive Revision

Author:Dana Spiotta

“Cindy is a terrific writer and has both a studied - and an intuitive - understanding of the best practices of no-hype, high results copywriting.”

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Author:Steve Slaunwhite

“The original meaning of the word tact referred to the sense of touch (as in 'tactile'), and came to mean skill in dealing with persons or sensitive situations. Tact is defined as: 'intuitive perception, especially a quick and fine perception of what is fit and proper and right.' It alludes to one's ability to conduct delicate negotiations and personal matters in a way that recognizes mutual rights, and yet leads to a harmonious solution.”

“Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.”

Humans Born Creative Curious Intuitive

Author:Ken Robinson

“If you tell yourself something over and over again, right or wrong, it becomes intuitive.”

Author:Sidney Coleman

“[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.”

Pride Logical Intuitive Grasping

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.”

Beautiful Sound Imagination Objects Judgment Sight Harmony Arise Intuitive

Book:Miscellanies, æsthetic and literary: to which is added The theory of life, collected and arranged by T. Ashe

Source: Miscellanies, æsthetic and literary: to which is added The theory of life, collected and arranged by T. Ashe

“I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.”

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Author:Irving Stone

“When a person has access to both the intuitive, creative and visual right brain, and the analytical, logical, verbal left brain, then the whole brain is working...And this tool is best suited to the reality of what life is, because life is not just logical-it is also emotional.”

Persons Whole Reality Life Is Left Brain Creative Emotional Tools Access Visuals Logical Intuitive Left Brain

Author:Stephen Covey

“Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.”

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Author:Aldous Huxley

“The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there's not enough information to do that - it's an intuitive process.”

People Persons Enough Process Company Successful Information Picks Candidates Being Successful Intuitive Amazing Things

Author:Steve Jobs

“Do not think dishonestly... Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. Pay attention even to trifles. Do nothing which is of no use.”

Thinking Matter Use Understanding Loss Pay Attention Gains Pay Attention Perceive Judgement Worldly Intuitive Trifles Gains And Losses

Book:Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

“It is my conviction that it is the intuitive, spiritual aspects of us humans-the inner voice-that gives us the 'knowing,' the peace, and the direction to go through the windstorms of life, not shattered but whole, joining in love and understanding.”

Giving Humans Whole Spiritual Understanding Voice Knowing Aspect Conviction Intuitive Joining Shattered Inner Voice Joining In

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.”

Feels Hands Turns Grace Dangerous Down And Make Sense Unfair Intuitive Upside Down

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It's like winter driving in Finland - if you skid, the natural reaction is to fight with the wheel and jam on the brakes, which is the quickest way to get killed. What you have to do is let go, and the car will right itself. It's the same when an orchestra loses its ensemble. You have to resist the temptation to semaphore, and let the orchestra find its own way back to the pulse.”

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Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“To know whether you can trust a particular intuitive judgment, there are two questions you should ask: Is the environment in which the judgment is made sufficiently regular to enable predictions from the available evidence? The answer is yes for diagnosticians, no for stock pickers. Do the professionals have an adequate opportunity to learn the cues and the regularities? The answer here depends on the professionals' experience and on the quality and speed with which they discover their mistakes.”