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

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.

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.

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.

let's forget the hope, it's the secondary thing to motivate.the primary one is to approach for it.

The Righteous God.

Don't let the belief that nobody will love you, keep you in a relationship where you aren't getting the love you need.

Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.

I'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy.

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them.

If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.

Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.