Nancy Gibbs Quotes

I act with my gut instincts.

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.

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.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

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

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our indispensable tool for navigating, for feeling our way through, the much larger domain of stuff that isn't susceptible to proof or disproof, that isn't checkable against the physical universe.

I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

One thing that I've learned about myself is I have to trust what I see. And that maybe sounds silly, but there's things that I feel or see during a game that, you know, I used to explain it as I have an angel on one shoulder that's telling me to run the play and the devil on the other shoulder that's telling me really what I should do.

Without our emotions, we can't make smart decisions.

I tend to make my most important decisions by following my instincts rather than any straightforward logic.

You need the right balance between data and gut feeling.

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

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

I think more from my heart. My brains don't work as much.

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 calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

Follow your heart because it always knows.

Trust your heart rather than your head.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

At that stage my heart ruled my head

I'm going to fight the force of emotions by that of intellect

Rule. In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.