Naveen Jain Quotes

Data is a tool for enhancing intuition.

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.

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.

I don't digest things with my mind.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

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

When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

I overthink decisions when I should really trust my heart.

There's a human element here you start to lose when you start rattling off the best mathematical equation to get the out.

My heroes were always a combination of Captain Kirk and Mr Spock. You have to be ruled by logic, but if you're only ruled by logic and you don't touch your emotions, you will make the wrong instinctive call.

You need the right balance between data and gut feeling.

I never overthink or overanalyze anything.

Intelligent decisions may fail you but one's instincts cannot.

When it comes to making decisions, I'm not what you'd call a numbers guy.

What skills I lacked in, say, math or science, I like to think I made up for in my ability to read people and situations with great clarity. I therefore considered myself as a sort of valued soothsayer when it came to dispensing opinions to my friends about their life choices or relationships.

Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling back on words which were not her own, "suppose one is cursed with both a heart and a brain?" "You can usually tell," said Miss de Vine, "by seeing what kind of mistakes you make. I'm quite sure that one never makes fundamental mistakes about the thing one really wants to do. Fundamental mistakes arise out of lack of genuine interest. In my opinion, that is.