William James Quotes

Every choice I've ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic.

I just go with my gut.

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

Sometimes, you really need to trust your gut.

I never say no or yes. I just listen to how I feel and follow my emotions.

Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.

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.

I have always trusted my impulses. I have always believed that once I'm in the circumstances, whatever they may be, I will find the right way.

I act with my gut instincts.

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.

Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

Reason is the servant of instinct.

I live on my gut instinct.

Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.

Your gut is always right.

Trust your gut.

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our indispensable tool for navigating, for feeling our way through, the much larger domain of stuff that isn't susceptible to proof or disproof, that isn't checkable against the physical universe.

I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

A buddy of mine is doing a documentary on decisions, and they're not based on a ton of logic. It's mostly how you relate to them emotionally.

You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.