Guts Quotes - Page 2

• The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.545, Anchor

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• American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

  Jackie Chan

  Hurt, Smart, Distance

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• Always trust your gut and your intuition will steer you right, every time.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Intuition, Trust Your Gut, Steers

  "Charisma Carpenter Talks SURVIVING EVIL, Telling Her Own Story of Survival, Connecting to Other Survivors, and Finding the Strength to Move On". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. August 28, 2013.

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• Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

  Robert Heller

  Love, Inspirational, Education

  Robert Heller (1984). “The Supermanagers: Managing for Success, the Movers and the Doers, the Reasons Why”, New York : E.P. Dutton

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• Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

  Jessamyn West

  Courage, Writing, Helpful

  Jessamyn West (1986). “Woman Said Yes: Encounters with Life and Death”, Harcourt on Demand

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• If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

  Holly Near

  Motivational, Wisdom, Mistake

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• I run to see who has the most guts.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Sports, Running, Track

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• People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

  August Strindberg

  Funny, Dog, Humor

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• I had a great year and left my guts out on the field.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Years, Great Year, Fields

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• I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

  Kate Winslet

  Dream, Peace, Passion

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• Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Answers, Compass

  "How Oprah Faced Her Fear of Flying" by Oprah Winfrey, www.oprahmag.co.za. April 2014.

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• You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there.
  Your voice comes out.

  Kathy Mattea

  Voice

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• That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Dream, Integrity, People

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• New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

  Jimmy Connors

  Love, Sports, Tennis

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• The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

  Carson Daly

  Mind, Acting, Steps

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• I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.

  William Shatner

  Hate, Flying, Flats

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• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

  W. H. Auden

  Death, Men, Gmos

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.148, DEBOLS!LLO

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• Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  Ian Hacking

  Future, Cutting, Done

  The Emergence of Probability Am Absent Family of Ideas (p. 3)

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• Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Believe, Passion, Garden

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• I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.

  Louise Fletcher

  Girl, New York, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

  Andy Kaufman

  Real, People, Laughing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

  Paula Abdul

  Faith, Perseverance, Loser

  FaceBook post by Paula Abdul from Oct 20, 2011

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• I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

  Robert Moog

  Cat, Thinking, Long

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• Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

  Alan Moore

  War, Men, People

  "The Craft". Interview with Daniel Whiston, "Engine Comics", January 2005.

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• For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

  Thora Birch

  Thinking, Offering, Support

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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