Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.

Politics, you will observe, is the science of guessing right.

Often you have to rely on intuition.

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

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.

A friend told me to listen to my heart. Another friend told me to listen to my gut. Maybe I need an autopsy, because right now my colon is kind of iffy.

...And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the convergence of the wrong, of the right, and of the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep...For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of a doubt, which is which.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

I have never had a problem dealing in areas of ambiguity. I can make a decision and not have it all lined up just right.

When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.

I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I... don't.

I'm confident and I trust my instincts.

What I can control and all I know as of today, I am signed up for one more year...I guess things could change, but with all the uncertainty in many aspects, I don't see (his decision not to sign an extension) changing before camp gets here, and when camp gets here I'm even more certain to play it out.

Don't know if Boston was real or lucid dream. When they chanted Diesel, it sure as hell felt real for ME! You make decisions in life, sometimes never getting proof that it was the right decision. The crowd in Boston on Sunday night assured me that I MADE THE RIGHT DECISION.

The more you have to talk yourself into it, the more it’s not ‘it’.

If you're not comfortable with a strong woman you're not comfortable with your own feminine instincts. You're not comfortable, period. You're going to be threatened by everything that's not exactly like you are ... and that is the measure any man.

Only weak men want women to be weak.

Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?