Tim Cook Quotes

Intuition is what makes the best players.

The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be true, even though it cannot be established at the moment, and of grasping the essential fact, discarding the unessential, even though one can give no account of the principles by which this is done.

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

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

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

The team that gets to play to their plan is usually the team that has the most success.

I'm fascinated with films that deal with strategy because there's a right way and a wrong way to get the job done.

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

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.

The 6 Ps: Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance

I make all my decisions on intuition.

I am a very instinct-driven person.

I think switching is like a lot of things. You can do it - it's a game plan - but you better do it well. You better practise it.

I know my talents well - I know my head well - so when I go onto the pitch, I know perfectly what I have to do.

The draft is like game day on a 3rd-and-5. You have a lot of plays you can choose from. You go with your gut, pick and play and hope it works.

I think more about preparation than numbers. If I'm well prepared, there will be results.

My gut instincts are strong, but they're not always accessible to me, which is why I like DJing, because you don't have time, and you have to go on instinct.

I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.

To win is not important. To be successful is not even important. How to plan and prepare is crucial. When you plan very well and prepare very well, then success can come on the way. Then winning can come on your way.

Potential is just potential until you can pull it off, and you need to show up ready to exercise the plan in mind. I've always come from that place in everything I've ever done.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned.

There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

How many situations can be resolved with less thinking?