"Just as extraverted sensation strives to reach the highest pitch of actuality, because only thus can the appearance of a complete life be created, so intuition tries to encompass the greatest possibilities, since only through the awareness of possibilities is intuition fully satisfied. Intuition seeks to discover possibilities in the objective situation; hence as a mere tributary function (viz when not in the position of priority) it is also the instrument which, in the presence of a hopelessly blocked situation, works automatically towards the issue, which no other function could discover. Where intuition has priority, every ordinary situation in life seems like a closed room, which intuition has to open. It is constantly seeking outlets and fresh possibilities in external life. At times objects would seem to have an almost exaggerated value, should they chance to represent the idea of a severance or release that might lead to the discovery of a new possibility. Yet no sooner have they performed their office, serving intuition as a ladder or a bridge, than they appear to have no further value, and are discarded as mere burdensome appendages. A fact is acknowledged only in so far as it opens up fresh possibilities of advancing beyond it and of releasing the individual from its operation." (Jung 1923)
"The intuitive is never to be found among the generally recognized reality values, but he is always present where possibilities exist. He has a keen nose for things in the bud pregnant with future promise. He can never exist in stable, long-established conditions of generally acknowleged though limited value: because his eye is constantly ranging for new possibilities, stable conditions have an air of impending suffocation. He seizes hold of new objects and new ways with eager intensity, sometimes with extraordinary enthusiasm, only to abandon them cold-bloodedly, without regard and apparently without remembrance, as sson as their range becomes clearly defined and a promise of any considerable future development no longer clings to them." (ibid.)
"[inferior extroverted intuition] also has a very weird, eerie, fantastic quality. But it is more concerned with the impersonal, collective world... archetypal fantasies that do not mainly represent the problem of the dreamer, but those of his time... for them the future does not exist, future possibilities do not exist, they are in the here and now, and there is an iron curtain before them. They behave in life as though it will always be the same as it is now; they are incapable of conceiving that things might change. The disadvantage of this type is that when these tremendous inner fantasies well up, such a person has great difficulty in assimilating them because of the accuracy and slowness of his conscious function. If such a type is at all willing to take his intuition seriously, he will be inclined to try to put it down very accurately. But how can you do that? Intuition comes in a flash, and if you try to put it down it has gone!... intuitions are very often of a sinister character, and if not worked upon, therefore, the prophetic contents that breaks through will be pessimistic and negative." (von Franz 1971)
"...will score very high in surmising the future outer developments around him... One finds them wherever there is something new brewing, even in the more spiritual realms. They will always be in the advance movement." (ibid.)
"Now the extroverted intuitive, because he is capable of sniffing the wind and knowing what the weather will be tomorrow, will see that this perhaps completely unknown painter or writer is the man of tomorrow, and therefore he will be fascinated." (ibid.)
"...tends to be unpunctual and vague. A disadvantage of having this as a main function is that the intuitive type sows, but rarely reaps." (ibid.)
"the individual will form intuitive judgments of what goes on in the outer world, and will be apt to suddenly discover connections between things, without being able to explain them... While Sensation is chiefly concerned with the actuality of things, Intuition sees what is of personal importance. It is specifically gifted in discovering all the various possibilities of individual development and activity." (van der Hoop 2013)
"The extravert intuitive type is more difficult to describe than the feeling or the thinking types, because one of its chief characteristics is its instability and its great power of adapting itself. The unconscious mental processes of persons of this type make them aware of special possibilities, which will then influence all their actions, feelings, and thoughts. Peaceful, well-balanced relations with their surroundings give them a sense of discomfort. They express themselves more immediately than the other types both in actions and in words, without taking thought beforehand, and without necessarily expressing much of their personality. They are always striving to realize the fullness of life by realizing their own being in its various manifestations. At one moment they will attach enormous importance to certain human beings or problems, which will be forgotten or thrust aside as soon as they have served their purpose." (ibid).
"...have lively, keen minds, and to express themselves easily and abundantly. They are less in contact with their fellow-beings than the extravert feeling type, because they are less able to elaborate their expression, and adapt it to others. They also have less inner unity than the thinking types, and their various forms of expression are less coordinated. They only consider others to be of importance in so far as they can assist or prevent the realization of their own potentialities of development, as revealed to them by intuition; and they are apt to judge thoughts and principles, and the ethical significance of their impulses, according to this one practical point of view, and not according to generally accepted standards. The only law they recognize is the higher power which is urging them forward. Persons of a different type are often astonished at the assurance of the intuitions by which they are guided; but if their self-confidence forsakes them for a moment, they are completely at a loss. This dependence upon impulses is apt to make them somewhat fickle." (ibid.)
"Such intuitive persons are often very active, because they involuntarily tend to apply all their energy to whatever may arise at the moment; but they are usually very impatient for results, and have a great need of variety. They display more impulsive energy than concentrated willpower." (ibid.)
