Anne-Laure Le Cunff Quotes

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

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

I don't have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It's just if I get a good sense from it and I feel that there is something interesting that we may be able to do with it, then I just kind of go for it.

Rule. In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

There has to be a level of intuition involved in what I do, and the more you use that intuition, the more honed it is.

I choose films based on gut instinct.

Intuition is what makes the best players.

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

Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.

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.

Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.

The first thought is often the best.

Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.

Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.

Go with your gut instincts even if it is contrarian to what the "experts" suggest.

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

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. Instinct is a lifesaver for sharks and entrepreneurs alike. Most people can recall times they ignored their gut only to regret it later. Learning to actually listen to your instinct is a great form of self-preservation. It's both incredibly easy and tough at the same time, but worth the effort to master.

When you know something is wrong for you, you have to make difficult decisions and trust your instincts.

If you are courageous, listen to the heart. If you are a coward, listen to the head.

If I feel like something's gonna be right, I invest in it, whatever it is.

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.

The more you have to talk yourself into it, the more it’s not ‘it’.

The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.