John McEnroe Quotes

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

Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

When I leaned a little too close to the doorway, my inner voice piped up, telling me not to be stupid. The guy with the bionic senses was better equipped for this.

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a 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.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

In government, you are pressed by the security agencies. They come to you with very good information, and they say, 'You need to do something.' So you do need the breath of scepticism, not cynicism, breathing on them.

Exploring how you could make a bad situation worse can sometimes tell you what not to do.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.

But what if our intelligence is wrong?

The fact that a man is driven back on feelings and instincts to justify an action or course of action which he has thought over and discussed, is good evidence that what he calls his feelings and instincts are at variance with his better judgment … and may therefore be worthless or dangerous guides in any wider matter involving the fate of his country or his fellow-countrymen.

I made a cold calculation that I wasn’t going to waste time on a futile struggle.

If you wait until you have all the facts, then it will be too late..

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.

I have passed on a lot of things that would have been extremely lucrative, because they were nothing else.

Politics isn't that difficult; it is about finding your conscience again. So, just do what is right.

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.

I'm playing for the Red Sox, and I don't think there's anybody out here who's going to intentionally hurt you. So you listen to information, and you kind of filter what you like and take out what you don't.