1: Quick and ready insight

2 a: Immediate apprehension or cognition

c: The power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

-- Frank Capra, filmmaker

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

-- W. Somerset Maugham, British author

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

-- Albert Camus, French author

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

-- Paul Dirac, British physicist

Intuition can't really be taught, but it can be practiced. There have been many times where I'm about to fall asleep, or I'm focused on soap and water in the shower, when along comes a Bolt from the Blue. It may be an idea for a project that I didn't even know I was thinking about. But somewhere in my brain the thoughts were stewing away... More