Erich Segal Quotes

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.

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.

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.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level.

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.

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

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

Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.

With women, you always have to make an educated decision to figure out what they're thinking. It's not one that's necessarily sympathetic, always. Of course, we're all human beings, but the gender thing is big thing. And a great thing.

Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.

I think the greatest lesson I have just recently learned is how powerful the mind is, informing our decision making unknowingly.

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control.

All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.

I just love thinking about what makes people tick

I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.

Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason.

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

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.

Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.