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• An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.

  David Corbett

  Regret, Character, Pride

  "The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV". Book by David Corbett, January 29, 2013.

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• Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mind, Dull, Mathematical

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

  Jared Spool

  Design, Target, Currents

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• Perhaps my early problems with dyslexia made me more intuitive: when someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed facts and figures I find that my imagination grasps and expands on what I read.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Dwelling, Imagination

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.

  Neil Peart

  Role Models, Choices, Age

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• If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

  David Carson

  Design, Use, Information

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• "Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum... In a world of hyperabundant content, point of view will become the scarcest of resources...

  Paul Saffo

  Views, Age, Information

  "It's The Context, Stupid" by Paul Saffo, www.wired.com. March 1, 1994.

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• When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Canvas, Paint, Form

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• The universe likes speed. Don't delay. Don't second guess. Don't doubt. When the opportunity is there, when the impulse is there, when the intuitive nudge from within is there, act. That's your job. That's all you have to do.

  Joe Vitale

  Jobs, Opportunity, Law Of Attraction

  Joe Vitale (2011). “The Key: The Missing Secret for Attracting Anything You Want”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons

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• During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.

  Fritjof Capra

  Truth, Knowledge, Giving

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• So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.

  Peter Weir

  Creativity, Analysis, Too Much

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• I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.

  Peter Weir

  Decision, Done, Interviews

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• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. More than anything else, this new century demands new thinking: We must change our materially based analyses of the world around us to include broader, more multidimensional perspectives.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Faithful Servants, Perspective

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• I had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and say, 'Ah!' in an encouraging way, as if he could see something I couldn't, and then I would find words to tell him how I was so scared, as if I were being stuffed farther and farther into a black, airless sack with no way out.

  Sylvia Plath

  Men, Black, Ugly

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.96, Faber & Faber

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• I think you're an acting teacher in disguise You're so incredibly intuitive and always passionate and always driven to go further. I never had to worry. All I had to do was look at you, babe.

  Chad Coleman

  Teacher, Thinking, Worry

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• Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken.

  Myrtle Aydelotte

  Art, Taken, Nursing

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• This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries to provide the conditions wherein we are able to yield ourselves to intuitive leadings, promptings, warnings, teachings, and counsels and also to the inspiring peace of the soul. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

  Paul Brunton

  Teaching, Luxury, Yield

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat”, Larson Publication

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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.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Knowing, Soul, Intuition

  Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

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• Disgust is intuitive microbiology

  Steven Pinker

  Microbiology, Disgusting

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.383, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any other challenge we might have in life.

  James E. Faust

  Perseverance, Children, Teaching

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• In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Kindness, Spring, Winter

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• In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Moving, Decision, Critical Moments

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• I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

  Sarah Zettel

  Science, Technology, Understanding

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• I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.

  Serj Tankian

  Believe, Civilization, Psychology

  "Serj Tankian: Alternative Rock’s Political Poet". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. November 9, 2007.

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• The final act of business judgment is intuitive.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Fortune Cookie, Finals, Judgment

  Alfred P Sloan (2015). “My Years With General Motors”, p.16, eNet Press

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