Subconscious Decision-Making Quotes

Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.

Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.

I think the greatest lesson I have just recently learned is how powerful the mind is, informing our decision making unknowingly.

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.

I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control.

I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making.

The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.

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.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.

I think all decision making is very instinctive, in the end.

In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs the mind. Only we are not aware of it, because we begin by reasoning before we know or say that we are reasoning, just as we begin by speaking before we observe that we are speaking, and just as we begin by seeing and hearing before we know what we see or what we hear.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

It would be great to just be able to ignore everything and pitch to a spot, to suppress the intellect and let the intuition take over.

I always want my mouth to be like two steps ahead of my brain and I want my hands to move without thinking. I want to be able to dive into my computer or use my controllers without having to be, like, "Hmm, what would be a good choice here?" You just want music to happen like the same way the sweat's rolling off my face.

If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.