Douglas Adams Quotes

Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.

To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.

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.

I've walked away from more climbs than I can count, just because I sensed that things were not quite right.

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.

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.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.

Most of the decisions you make are not black and white, but at the end of the day, you have to make the decision.

In many important contexts, especially those that are complex, new, or unfamiliar, you shouldn’t blink… and you really shouldn’t trust your gut.

As you get older, you start to understand you have to do what you need to do.

The best decisions are taken quickly and well. You can prepare yourself, have all aspects of the game thought through, but the one who shines on the pitch is the one with intuition.

When I was at uni, I got good grades and went on to do honours, but I kept thinking, 'I shouldn't be here.' Something just didn't feel right. When I finished, I decided that every decision I make from this day forward will be purely based on intuition, and I'm not going to fight that.

You need the right balance between data and gut feeling.

I'd do anything at the right time, and I would also do things at the wrong time if they felt right.

You accumulate emotional wisdom as you get older. You know, when you're 25, you go on blind dates with people that, when you're 50, you know to stay away from.

Every GM will tell you it's an instinct. It's an instinct to be patient, to react, or act, or not to do anything at all. It just comes. What I can say is you must have a plan and a goal and a way to do things. At the end of the day, it's an instinct. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's bad.

All my life, I believe what my mind tells me; what my heart tells me. All the way back to Congo, it has worked for me.

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

People who are great at making decisions in the face of uncertainty have great judgment.

Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling, the kind of feeling that comes when you gauge the distance to be jumped between two stones across a brook. Something within you disengages itself from your body and travels ahead with your vision to make the test. You can feel it try the jump as you stand looking. Then uncertainty gives way to the conviction that it can or can't be done.

It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

Who's to say what would have happened if I had trusted my instincts and moved to New York like I thought I would.