If you mean, "My gut feeling is telling me this; therefore I can act on it and I don't have to worry," we say you should never trust your gut.

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.

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.

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

That’s the beauty of magic. You can get it no matter how rich or poor you are.

True courage is in knowing that there is nothing to scare you.

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence

It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.

Understanding why is never enough.

Limits are self-imposed. But there are no limits to human energy nor the goals you can achieve.

Tom Hanks hits a new career peak. One of the best films of the year.