Arne Jacobsen Quotes

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's when I see the goal.

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

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

Sometimes I'm wrong, sometimes not. But I'm an instinctual player.

It's kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn't.

I think the most important thing that young people should be taught at school is how they can decide what they're being told is true.

Always find different ways to accomplish the mission. Then run a counter-analysis and list the advantages and disadvantages. When you have done that, you are ready to make a decision.

Test everything, including assumptions

How many situations can be resolved with less thinking?

Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.

I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

You have to go with your instincts.

I went to the four levers. None of them were marked. There was only one way to figure out which one was the right one. I had to call upon all my Traveler experience and special powers to figure it out. It's called...Eenie, meenie, miney...mo!" -Bobby Pendragon

Trust your instincts, trust your judgment.

...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.

In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

You read something and you just feel this makes sense. And sometimes before you even read it you have a feeling that yeah, I'm probably gonna do this one.

Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.