Steve Jobs Quotes

Intuition is a strong feminine quality.

Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.

There has to be a level of intuition involved in what I do, and the more you use that intuition, the more honed it is.

I think, you have to forget about intellect, to a degree. Intuition is very important when you're working with a lens, I believe, for what the lens is doing, too.

Your intuition is not the same thing as your mind. In fact, intuition is really the opposite of your mind - and you need to use BOTH in living your day-to-day life.

We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you think about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination is absurd. But the President didn't say he thought about his selection. He said this: "I know her heart." Notice how he said nothing about her brain? He didn't have to. He feels the truth about Harriet Miers.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect.

We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.

I don't want to think I want to feel!

I love the human mind.

This is the essential element that cannot be measured by any analysis or device, and I believe it's at the heart of success in all things: the power of intuition and the ability to harness and use it like a master.

I just . . . knew, the way you know how to breathe or to pull your hand back from a hot stove.

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.