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I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent. -- Junot Diaz
Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks. -- Bill Nye
It seems to me that liberal and humane people, of whom there are many among us, would, if they were asked to rank the vices, put cruelty first. Intuitively they would choose cruelty as the worst thing we do. -- Judith N. Shklar
There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively. -- Jonathan Ive
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion. -- Daniel Kahneman
Sometimes you don't know why you're doing something. You're intuitively following, to see where it leads. -- Edward Burtynsky
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. -- Charles Lindbergh
I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt. -- Tom Shadyac
There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there. -- Jess Walter
Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace. -- Tullian Tchividjian
People intuitively realize that there is strength in numbers and take comfort in the company of others, especially in times of anxiety or need. -- Leonard Mlodinow
I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down. -- Joan Didion
I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound. -- David Gilmour
A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences. -- Steve Albini
I listen to music, I read scripts, and I know pretty intuitively if I can unlock it in a way. It's actually very liberating when you understand that not everything is for you. -- Diane Paulus
Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources. -- Dan Millman
As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know. -- Henry Reed
When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this person will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish the task at hand. -- Tommy Mottola
It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me. -- Steven Spielberg
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
When holiness is achieved by conforming to God's will, one knows intuitively that which is wrong and that which is right before the Lord. Holiness speaks when there is silence, encouraging that which is good or reproving that which is wrong. -- James E. Faust
It's been amazing to step out of a bottle of ink on to an iPad. There's no better time than right now to embrace this fabulous sandpit of technology. Because intuitively, at the touch of a finger, most of it is possible. -- Max Walker
I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively. In London, it's all about color because the weather is so gray, and in that cold light they look beautiful. -- Mario Testino
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others. -- V. S. Naipaul
No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball thrown from pitcher to catcher seems to take just one path, the one described by Newton's laws of motion. Yet at a microscopic level, the universe behaves quite differently. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent. -- Samantha Power
Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment. -- Brian Eno
I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places. -- Garrison Keillor
Beyond surfaces, you must be intuitively at ease. -- Judith Orloff
What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. -- D. H. Lawrence
I like to do things sort of intuitively, I think. -- Christina Ricci
All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness. -- Carl Jung
Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively. -- Bill Griffith
I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script. -- Ralph Fiennes
Beyond the natural numbers, addition, multiplication, and mathematical induction are intuitively clear. -- L. E. J. Brouwer
I only read a book if I feel intuitively led to read it. -- Echo Bodine
If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry. -- Harry Callahan
The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ... -- Bruno Bettelheim
Less-creative people can't shift gears. Very creative people move between these two states intuitively. -- Guy Claxton
Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait. -- C. A. Bartol
Children are very wise intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends. -- Virginia C. Andrews
Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world. -- Hayao Miyazaki
The chemistry of making the songs is often about being inspired by each other and responding intuitively. -- Joe Goddard
[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think. -- Kurt Vonnegut
If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural. -- Sara Genn
Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to. -- Robert Grudin
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I'm certainly not a lyricist first. I prefer doing it intuitively and not really thinking about it so much. -- Daniel Rossen
People intuitively know that trade is good for our country. We just have to get the right trade agreements. -- John Kasich
I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global. -- DJ Spooky
My parents taught me the value of money and working hard. And I kind of got that in me intuitively. -- Sophia Amoruso
It's a constant process of bouncing ideas off of one another and intuitively arriving at the right decision in the moment. -- Ted Alexandro
When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively. -- Edward Albee
I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling. -- Robert Ryan
It is very important to learn to weigh up objectively (or assess intuitively) the totality of the competitive and psychological factors. -- Mark Dvoretsky
I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific. -- Gus Van Sant
A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life. -- Anuj
Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong, -- Neil Turok
The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women. -- Stephen Gaskin
Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong. -- Neil Turok
The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience. -- Rollo May
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. -- V. S. Naipaul
Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively. -- Marcus Sakey
Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers. -- Philipp Otto Runge
Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator -- Alex Grey
I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people. -- Harry Callahan
The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work. -- Mike Leigh
I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living. -- Antonin Artaud
If I am intuitively led to buy and read a book, what that means is that there is something there that will help me grow spiritually. -- Echo Bodine
I follow my interests pretty - I don't like the word 'intuitively.' I follow them in a kind of natural way, without questioning them too much. -- Lydia Davis
I was at a point in my life that was really between life or death, and I sort of intuitively and instinctively knew, I have to listen. -- Brad Willis
Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations. -- Albert Speer
I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively. -- Eric Drooker
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it. -- Fernando Botero
I'm bored by films that revolve around a trick. I kind of know if a film is right for me; all the most important decisions are made intuitively. -- Mary Harron
I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better. -- John Stossel
First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions. -- John Rawls
In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language. -- Mikhail Tal
Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically. -- Georges Braque
In investing, we intuitively think we should make a number of small bets. A blockbuster strategy is the opposite. It means making fewer huge investments. But it turns out to be safer. -- Anita Elberse
I don't care how intelligent or attractive someone is, if he zaps your energy, he isn't for you. True chemistry is more than intellectual compatibility. Beyond surfaces, you must be intuitively at ease. -- Judith Orloff
The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze. -- Tim Berners-Lee
I do a lot of things intuitively. I'm not often consciously aware of what I'm doing. It's like in a dream: There's something going on that's powerful but you don't know exactly why. -- Charlie Kaufman
In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture). -- Albert Einstein
I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival. -- Ingrid Betancourt
Some artists approach their 'why?' intuitively, and work toward giving it a voice through their technical skill. Others begin as technicians, and develop, or discover, their 'why?' as they become stronger communicators. -- Sara Genn
The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure. The Divine Mind intuitively grasps that form immediately, as men do a triangle. -- Jorge Luis Borges
At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted. -- Wynn Bullock
you cannot make a person believe anything unless that person has already had a conscious or unconscious vision of the same thing; you have no conviction of truth unless you have already apprehended it intuitively. -- Gwethalyn Graham
Philosophical progress changes what we take to be "intuitively" obvious, and this change covers up the tracks of the laborious arguments that preceded the changes. We don't see these changes, because we see with them. -- Rebecca Goldstein

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