Top 72 Quotes About Hunch
#1. But a quick-acting poison, that's different. It strikes with blind swiftness. You can be bit by temptation anytime. It is a thought, a direction, a noise in your brain, a hunch, an intuition that leads you to darker places than you've ever imagined. I
Louise Erdrich
#2. The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.
Isaac Asimov
#3. I gave people who didn't know what to say the best advice I could muster, which was that it was better to say anything rather than pretend that nothing was wrong. My hunch was that Mom would simply appreciate knowing that people were thinking of her.
Will Schwalbe
#4. If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed. ...
Ford Madox Ford
#5. Hmm? It's sort of a hunch ... I just knew when I saw your eyes ... I can't come up with cool words to describe it. Well. To put it simply ... '
After deliberating, he finally said the words that are likely to come from the wizards in a fairy-tale.
'I can do anything.
Ryohgo Narita
#6. Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.
Fred Wilson
#7. Still, I had a hunch about it, and if there's one thing I've learned in my long and stupid career as a man, it's the importance of listening to my hunches.
Paul Auster
#8. No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.
Patricia Hampl
#9. I have a hunch that little will change in the next decade because the dominant mind frame of teaching is still teachers talking, teachers controlling the flow of lessons, and teachers continually asking for more time and resources with fewer students in front of them - unless the students revolt!
Alan Bain
#10. Call it a hunch; and hunches don't just materialise, you pay for them with hard-earned experience. No such thing as a free hunch.
Tom Holt
#11. A hunsh is your brain's way of taking a shortcut to the truth.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#12. Now as he watched Katie toying with a ring that wasn't there, he felt his old investigative instincts kick in. There'd been a husband, he thought; her husband was the missing element. Either she was still married or she wasn't, but he had an undeniable hunch that Katie was still afraid of him.
Nicholas Sparks
#13. I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs ... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.
Joan Smalls
#14. My hunch is that as the importance of a decision grows, the tendency to rely on quantitative analyses done by others tends to shrink. When the championship or the future of the company is on the line, managers tend to rely on their gut instincts.
Richard H. Thaler
#15. Here's my hunch: nobody's secure, and nobody feels like she completely belongs. Those insecurities are just job hazards of being human. But some people dance anyway, and those people have more fun.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#16. A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Frank Capra
#17. What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin
#18. I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.
Al Madrigal
#19. conversations each year with fellow participants confirmed my hunch: the powerful are experiencing increasingly greater limits on their power. The reactions to my probing always pointed in the same direction: power is becoming more feeble, transient, and constrained.
Moises Naim
#20. This is just a hunch, but I bet airplanes think helicopters are assholes.
Dana Gould
#21. Hunch is your brain's way of taking a shortcut to the truth.'
'In small towns news travel at the speed of boredom'.
Carlos Luiz Zafon
#22. Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin
#23. Sometimes you just have to trust your instincts; it may be all you have to trust.
Jocelyn Murray
#24. I followed a hunch," she said. "I had to - and I was right.
Veronica Rossi
#25. The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.
Steven Spielberg
#26. I had begun with the comforting conclusion that books are the tongue of divine wisdom, and had ended only with the thin hunch that all books are grand follies, destined forever to be misunderstood.
Richard Flanagan
#27. [Entrepreneurship] is by no means hunch or gamble. But it also is not precisely science. Rather, it is judgment.
Peter Drucker
#28. Indecision may come from an instinctive hunch that there's more you need to know - which means it's time to learn everything you can about the pros and cons of each option. You can continue on this track, however, only as long as you're unearthing genuinely new information.
Martha Beck
#29. Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.
Fred Wilson
#30. So part of the secret of hunch cultivation is simple: write everything down.
Steven Johnson
#31. I had a hunch. Officially, scientists don't work on hunches. We work on hypotheses and observations and plenty of evidence. Hunches don't get you research funding, tenure at your university, or access to the world's largest telescopes. But a hunch was all I had.
Mike Brown
#32. Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform.
Steven Johnson
#33. If I wasn't about to go on the run, I'd get one of those smartphones that people hunch over all day like shitting dogs.
Victoria Scott
#34. My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home.
James Levine
#35. A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;
While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars?-
Then you've a hunch was the music meant ... hunger and night and the stars.
Robert W. Service
#36. It isn't a hunch but the subconscious mind, which is the creative mind, at work. That is the mind which makes artists do things without their knowing how they came to do them. Perhaps with me it was the cumulative effect of a lot of little things individually insignificant but collectively powerful.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#37. The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.
Martin Gardner
#38. You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.
James Dickey
#39. As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.
Douglas Coupland
#40. had a hunch that people wanted to keep jellyfish as pets, so he created a test website and bought $100 in Google search ads. Lo and behold, his
Anonymous
#41. My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else.
Evgeny Morozov
#42. If you've got no responsibility and don't have to generate a certain amount of cash each month, and can live on a shoestring, and are ambitious enough, then you might have a chance. You can be dedicated but that is no guarantee that you'll make it. I rely on a hunch, a little luck, and some cunning.
Elliott Erwitt
#44. The only person he told about his hunch was Monroe. He and Monroe had grown up together in Dorchester, playing in the streets when the summer made the asphalt breathe and their laughter bounced
Jodi Picoult
#45. What is reality anyway! It's nothing but a collective hunch.
Jane Wagner
#46. The Bishop has a skin, God knows,
Wrinkled like the foot of a goose,
(All find safety in the tomb.)
Nor can he hide in holy black
The heron's hunch upon his back,
But a birch-tree stood my Jack ...
William Butler Yeats
#47. My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.
Graydon Carter
#48. I have a hunch from reading about old passageways that there may be one or more rooms off this tunnel, Nancy told Captain Rossland.
Carolyn Keene
#49. My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the morning and sometimes all night. When I get going I like to hunch over the keyboard until I feel totally played out.
Jess Walter
#50. It was terrible music to dance to; all you could really do was nod and hunch to the music. The girls all looked like they were listening to the same sad story. Yes, yes, yes, that's awful. Yes, yes, yes.
Rainbow Rowell
#51. Call it a hunch, but I sense that many of us are not entirely comfortable with a world in which every single thing we buy creates a cloud of data. I'd like to have an option to not have a record of how much I tipped, or what I bought at 1:08 A.M. at a corner market in New York City.
John Battelle
#52. He'd been an odd one, that boy with the camera. Such a distinctive physique: pale skin so taut on his skeleton, holding himself with a shy hunch, not ugly as such but certainly not handsome, with a demeanor eager to cause no trouble, to attract no attention.
Ali Shaw
#53. Reality is nothing more than a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin
#54. I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.
Donald Knuth
#55. Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory,
Steven Johnson
#56. In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.
Sadie Jones
#57. So they profiled the Gingerbread Man with a curved spine." "It's just a hunch," I said.
J.A. Konrath
#58. I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now.
Burt Rutan
#59. If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.
Beryl Markham
#60. There isn't much time for a plan. This is more of a hunch with scaffolding.
Brandon Sanderson
#61. With the right hunch, you could read the inflection of an author's soul on a single comma, in one sentence, and from that one sentence seize the whole book, his life work.
Andre Aciman
#62. There are comics in L.A. doing impressions, and the first thing they do is hunch over and then start to do this bad Rick Moranis voice I do as well when I really get going. It's pretty horrible.
Al Madrigal
#63. For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored.
Wayne Dyer
#64. Here." Sam came over, stripped down to his boxers. "Hunch forward and put your head down."
Robin looked at him. "My safe word is monkey.
Suzanne Brockmann
#65. My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will in some way inspire cartwheels in their hearts.
Fred Rogers
#66. Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting. Faith is journeying through space and through time.
Frederick Buechner
#67. 1My father says a hunch is your brain's way of taking a short cut to the truth,' replied Max.
'He's a wise man, your father. What else does he say?'
'That the more you try to hide from the truth, the quicker it finds you.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#68. A hunch is only a conscious conclusion based on subconscious data you don't know you have.
John Blaine
#69. In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right.
Paul Mellon
#70. IF UNIVERSAL COUNTLESS GALAXIES STAR'S AND PLANETS ON SKY EXCOGITATED FOR HUNCH .COULD WE EXPEDITE SECRETS OF GOD EXISTENCE & PAST,PRESENT &FUTURE TIMES CREATIVE CRAFT OF COSMOS&SOULS NASCENCY LIMN.
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#72. The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.
Thomas Adams
