#intuition

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#chance #clear #composition #equation #found

A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the mortal enemy of spiritual awareness and soul growth. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

#consciousness-mind-brain #ego #false-belief #intuition #intuitive

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#find #her #intuition #reasons #support

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#cannot #disregarded #does #intuition #itself

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition. ↗

— Brian May

#could #i #intuition #just #listening

I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be. ↗

— Meredith Monk

#another #artist #clear #create #form

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#beginning #business #define #did #even

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#man #more #nothing #often #passes

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#complement #each #i #i think #intellectual

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself. ↗

— Henry Reed

#been #experience #force #intuition #itself