Clay Shirky Quotes

You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.

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

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.

I just go with my gut.

He's thinking more with his heart than with his brain.

Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

A buddy of mine is doing a documentary on decisions, and they're not based on a ton of logic. It's mostly how you relate to them emotionally.

We make decisions based on what we feel in the moment.

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

I'm an emotional person. I chose films based on emotions.

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

I never say no or yes. I just listen to how I feel and follow my emotions.

I go by my instincts. It's whatever I feel in the scene in the moment.

Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.

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

Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.

I don't want to think I want to feel!

The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart.

Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.

I do believe that almost everything I do is based on my feelings, not on my intellect. Though But we won't chase ourselves up the particular sentiment, or we'll get lost.

I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.

I'm completely intuitive and I don't like to analyze things.