Simon Sinek Quotes

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

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable.

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

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.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

People usually think with their brain or go with their heart, but a good place to start is if you have a gut feeling.

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

First with the head, then with the heart.

You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.

One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.

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

Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to their reason. Think things out before they act. But maybe they never heard what Dr. London told me one, Freud said that for the little things in life we should react according to our reason. But for really big decisions, we should heed what our unconscious tells us.

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.

The eye sees more than the heart knows.

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

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

Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself

All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.