Virgil Abloh Quotes

I'm very impulsive and I always had a belief in instinct leading the way.

You have to go with your instincts.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

As an idea occurs to me, I'll either follow it or not, but I'm more instinctive than master-planner about stuff.

I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.

We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.

I'm very spontaneous. I go with my gut.

I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things.

I’m a gut player. I rely on my instincts.

I don't think through anything I do. I just do it, and it's oftentimes landed me in huge amounts of trouble.

I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.

I'm more the kind of man who never makes decisions. But impulsivity is not the opposite of courage; I think it's possible to do both.

If something sounds good, and I get a good feeling about it, I'll take it, irrespective of the fee being offered to me.

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

I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts.

If something feels right, I do it. If it feels wrong, I don't. It's really very, very simple, but you've got to be willing to take your chances doing stuff that may look crazy to other people - or not doing something that looks right to others but just feels wrong to you.

you have to play it out sometimes.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.