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• 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 by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

  Margery Allingham

  Two, Quiet, Logical

  Margery Allingham (2016). “Margery Allingham Box Set 2: Flowers for the Judge, Death of a Ghost, and The Case of the Late Pig”, p.120, Ipso Books

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• 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 shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Ideas, Years, Shapes

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

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• The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper.

  Jacques Maritain

  Song, Creative, Soul

  Jacques Maritain (1966). “Challenges and renewals: selected readings”

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• Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Sun

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• Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.

  Alber Elbaz

  Running, Dream, Hard Work

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• everyone - you included - is on her best behavior in the beginning of a relationship. Sometimes little quirks turn out to be big ones, and the big advantage that women have - sometimes the only advantage - is their intuition.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Littles, Sometimes, Behavior

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jul 28, 2012

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• I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

  Minna Antrim

  Mistake, Quality, Feminine

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• Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

  Deepak Chopra

  Leadership, Spiritual, Religious

  "Deepak Chopra On Enlightened Leadership". Interview with Forbes, www.forbes.com. January 12, 2011.

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• 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 be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be.

  Meredith Monk

  Teenager, Artist, Want

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• Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

  John Hench

  People, Cynical, Instinct

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• Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning.

  Fernando Araujo Perdomo

  Surprise, Unique Experiences, Intuitive

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• All good ideas arrive by chance.

  Max Ernst

  Writing, Ideas, Chance

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• Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

  Naveen Jain

  Trust, Real, Heart

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• 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.

  Stephen King

  Here I Am, People, Crystals

  Stephen King (1988). “The eyes of the dragon: a story”, Egully.com

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• What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

  Manuel Puig

  Thinking, Intellectual, Poetic

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• 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 chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

  Maurice Ravel

  Cells, Ravens, Mathematical Equations

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• What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

  Benjamin Spock

  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Creation is the product of synchronizing our energy with the universe. Once we experience the whole and recognize it, we become aware that we are nothing but the Divine Creative Force.

  Freydoon Rassouli

  Creative, Energy, Creation

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• 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.

  Kit Williams

  Needs, Want, Advertising

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• No Pilar," Agustin said. "You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Smart, Heart, Decision

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2626, Simon and Schuster

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• The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.

  Pat Conroy

  Real, Grief, Rivers

  Pat Conroy (1986). “The Prince of Tides”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The painting has a life of its own

  Jackson Pollock

  Inspirational, Art, Landscape Painting

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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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

  Powerful, Lying, Effectiveness

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• 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. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect,but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Wish, Fiction, Use

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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