Andre Drummond Quotes

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

With experience, you understand expectations, you understand consequences, but sometimes it gets a little bit hard, especially for me, that I'm a perfectionist - I want to analyse everything. And sometimes it's most important to just let go and trust your instincts. This is what I need to do more of.

I have learned to listen and to hone my instincts to be perceptive and be receptive to change, to constantly live in ambiguity.

You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.

There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience.

It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.

I'm so much better off when I trust my instincts. But they're not perfect.

Listen to your gut. Are decisions more expansive or narrowing?

Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.

The best thing in business is to follow your gut. If a decision is not sitting well with you, don't just make it.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.

When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage. And I'd much rather be that person who lets people in.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.

Listening to your instincts, while being the easiest, can also be the hardest thing to do.

I know I have pretty good instincts.

If my senses don't feel right then I don't do it.

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.