The Top 10 Quotations About Intuition
Category: Effectiveness Skills, Results (AG537)Originally Submitted on 10/14/2003.
Intuition is an Emotional Intelligence competency. It's something we all have, and smart and savvy people (such as Lee Iacocca and Albert Einstein) have relied on all along. Call it gut feeling, or instincts, or "just knowing," it's a sure guide as to what to do once you learn to recognize it. Have you been developing yours?
1. Intuition is the superior way of knowing ultimate truth without the use of prior knowledge or reason.
Spinoza
2. How do you know when it's your intuition? When you feel absolutely certain.
A client
3. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you, and you don't know how or why.
Albert Einstein
4. The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut.
Lee Iacocca
5. I know when I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it out, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence until something clicks and I feel a right answer.
Conrad Hilton
6. We spent (almost none) of our time studying plans for the mission and (almost all of our time) learning how to react intuitively to all the "what ifs." Reliance on the intuitive response was the most important part of an astronaut's training.
Edgar Mitchell
7. What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.
Alexander Graham Bell
8. With experience [your sensitivity] can make possible the detection of nuances of feelings and meanings that would elude...explicit documentation. This sensitivity is not solely a matter of education or supervision. It is a product of life experience ... the produce of varied and meaningful human contacts, of exposure to the esthetic dimensions of life (art, poetry, myths, music), and of [introspection and reflection].
James F. T. Bugental
9. There's a direct correlation between practicing kindness and the development of intuition.
Belleruth Naparstek
10. One way to tell your intuition is trying to tell you something ... things break.
Suzee Ebeling
About the Submitter
This piece was originally submitted by Susan Dunn, MA Clinical Psychology, The EQ Coach, who can be reached at sdunn@susandunn.cc, or visited on the web. Susan Dunn wants you to know: I coach iindividuals who want to develop life balance and happiness, productivity and career success with the tools of Emotional Intelligence. I have coached attorneys, psychiatrists, psychologists, college professors, business owners and executives. Email me for FREE eZine.
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