By the time executives get to high levels, they are good at making others feel confident in their judgment, even if there's no strong basis for the judgment.

Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.

You need to take your gut feeling as an important data point, but then you have to consciously and deliberately evaluate it, to see if it makes sense in this context.

I worry about leaders in complex situations who don't have enough experience, who are just going with their intuition and not monitoring it, not thinking about it.

There needs to be a certain structure to a situation, a certain predictability that allows you to have a basis for the intuition.

People sometimes are so confident in their flawed beliefs that they get stuck - fixated - and as a result are blinded to insights that are right in front of them.

Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.

You need strategies that help rule things out. That's the opposite of saying, "This is what my gut is telling me; let me gather information to confirm it."

If a situation is very, very turbulent, it has low validity, and there's no basis for intuition.

Many business intuitions and expertise are going to be valuable; they are telling you something useful, and you want to take advantage of them.

You shouldn't trust the judgments of stock brokers picking individual stocks.

Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes in pitch-black pits of darkness is scarcely sedative.("Out Of The Deep")

Sing me not a song; let me hear your recital of veneration and respect; this I will listen to over and over when I share your need of pleasing.

Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.

I would say that if something has an aesthetic value and it is pleasing to watch or to wear, it may in fact have nothing to do with status symbol. You just like to wear it.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

Now Peter said by exceeding great and precious promises you become partakers of the divine class. All right, are we gods? We are a class of gods!

I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.

Can't nobody take my pride. Can't nobody hold me down.

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.