Instinct Quotes

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Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition — Henry Mintzberg
It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are. — Jim Shepard
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… — Stephen King
No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to… — Konosuke Matsushita
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting… — Katherine Anne Porter
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. — Henri Bergson
As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form of abstract thought.… — J M Coetzee
But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after… — Juliette Binoche
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but… — Margery Allingham
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a… — V.S. Naipaul
I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to… — Meredith Monk
Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition. — Fred Frith
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. — Rita Mae Brown
Intuition is reason in a hurry. — Holbrook Jackson
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does… — Andre Weil
Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much… — W L George
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by… — Maurice Ravel
As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners. — Louisa May Alcott
Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway — George Santayana

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