a spontaneous judgement

could be said for observation Intuitions are not wholly reliable, but also in the fact that we know so little about them

intuition is an expression of tacit knowledge.

intuition’s primary role is to understand or apprehend the salient features of a case – in the form of a judgement – and a secondary (indirect) role as evidence for or against philosophical theories.

a revival of the use of intuitions was prompted by Chomsky’s linguistics

aim to use intuitions as evidence

Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may lose interest, give way under stress, or dismiss the change as insignificant. There's an excitement and an energy that comes from a big transformation, and that helps to create a habit.

It's all about letting the story take over.

I've never seen a tornado and I've lived in Oklahoma City basically my whole life. It's not like we're infested with them on a continual basis. But you learn to live with the warnings. And you learn what to do if one is coming your way. And then you cross your fingers and make the best judgments you can.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write.

Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines.

As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'

There was a moment with 'Zootopia' where we said, 'This is the experiment: let's try Judy in the role of the protagonist. Let her character introduce us to the city and this world.' And suddenly, all that struggling and trying to make traction into this story was done.

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.

I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'

I love nature.

The way they taught history in schools was not appealing. They stressed wars and dates. They left the people out. I was attracted to history by the need to know about the people. In China, I went to a British school, and we just learned about kings and queens. Back in America, I had the regular social studies curriculum.

Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for "Lord of the Rings" out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

What podcasts can do in order to liven up the talk show area of TV is bring new personalities and unique worldviews into the fray in a way that's not going to be filtered through the whole Q-rating thing. I think there's a whole new layer of doing things that TV is behind the Internet in figuring out.

Truth be known, President Obama has never been particularly driven by principle. Right after his election, I wrote a column in a few days warning people that even though I voted for Obama, he was not what people were describing him to be. I saw him in the Senate. I saw him in Chicago.

I never planned on being a plumber.

There was a time when I was knocking on doors and concerned with being recognized in dominant culture. I've found a space where the terrain is different, where I'm embraced by people like me, and where I'm building new ways of doing things, as opposed to trying to insert myself in a place that might not be welcoming.

Generally you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well.