Angelina Jolie Quotes

I overthink decisions when I should really trust my heart.

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

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.

Listening to your instincts, while being the easiest, can also be the hardest thing to do.

It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

With experience, you understand expectations, you understand consequences, but sometimes it gets a little bit hard, especially for me, that I'm a perfectionist - I want to analyse everything. And sometimes it's most important to just let go and trust your instincts. This is what I need to do more of.

It's hard when you have a lot of naysayers to know when they might be right or when to ignore them and go with your gut and do something that may seem risky.

For me, I always think somebody's open. That's the biggest gift and the biggest curse. If I see somebody have a step, I'm passing it. But sometimes, you've got to really think and make the right plays.

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.

I think that when somebody tells you something of value, a lot of the time there's this thing that happens, and I don't know if you find it, where they go exactly for the word or the moment or the thing that you were hoping they wouldn't notice, or inside didn't feel 100 percent secure about. If they point it out, then that really sends you the message of, "Okay, I was trying to override my own instincts about it, and I guess I shouldn't."

Your heart will always tell you what’s working and what’s not.

We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.

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.

You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

I'm bad at rationalisation - very bad.

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.