Donna Shalala Quotes

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

Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.

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

I strongly believe that many of the best decisions are made on gut instinct.

We are divided between those who think with their heads and those who know with their heart. Consider Harriet Miers. If you think about Harriet Miers, of course her nomination is absurd. But the President didn't say he thought about his selection. He said this: "I know her heart." Notice how he said nothing about her brain? He didn't have to. He feels the truth about Harriet Miers.

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a single dumbass thing I’ve done in my adult life that I didn’t know was a dumbass thing to do while I was doing it. Even when I justified it to myself—as I did every damn time—the truest part of me knew I was doing the wrong thing. Always. As the years pass, I’m learning how to better trust my gut and not do the wrong thing, but every so often I get a harsh reminder that I’ve still got work to do.

I think as with everything in life you've got to follow your gut. If you believe it wholeheartedly, then it's not going to feel like you're kind of pasting on an idea.

Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership.

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

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

The truth is I have from the very beginning listened to my instincts. All of my best decisions in life have come because I was attuned to what really felt like the next right move for me.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

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.

If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.

There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate - when a particular course of action just feels right.

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

We are often in society told to make decisions in one of two ways. We're either told "Use your gut, just go with how you feel about it and let that guide you," or we're told to use reason - some very deliberative methodical process of pros and cons and really thinking it through.

Anytime I listen to my gut and I don't do something, or I do, it always tends to work out in my favor.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

By the time you're 18, 19, you know yourself, and you shouldn't go against your gut feeling, which is a temptation in the first year of university.

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.

There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience.

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.