Guts Quotes - Page 20

• Go with your gut instincts even if it is contrarian to what the "experts" suggest.

  Jim Rohn

  Experts, Instinct, Ifs

  Source: www.selfgrowth.com

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• I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I don't think I would write it on a typewriter either. I write in a very blind gut instinctive way. It just doesn't feel right. There's a physical connection. And then in nonfiction that's not the case at all. I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Thinking, Technology

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• That's why I'm glad Jesus died when he did. Because if he lived to be 40, he would have ended up like Elvis. He was famous already at that point. If he lived to be 40, he'd be walking around Jerusalem with a big fat beer gut and black side burns going, Damn, I'm the son of God. Give me a cheeseburger and french fries right now.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Jesus, Humor

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". m.imdb.com. 1993.

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• There is a string attached to Maia Sharp's voice. And when she sings, you find that the other
  end is attached to your gut. Her voice is lush and sensual and the emotions she articulates
  resonate with the small feelings we have that sometimes are hard to face..there is an edge to
  her songs, but also a softness...she is lyrical and conversational at the same time. Her CD was
  the only one in my machine for a month. Her work inspires me to dig deeper.

  Kathy Mattea

  Song, Cds, Voice

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• I naturally gravitate to darker characters. Gotham. Batman's suit. It's all dark; he's very interesting. It all comes from his builds and guts.

  David Finch

  Character, Dark, Interesting

  Source: zimmert101.wordpress.com

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• Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du
  Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

  James Russell Lowell

  Peace, Want, Shows

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.271

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• People that had the guts to put their loyalty to the Constitution ahead of their loyalty to their political party were citizen legislators.

  Tom Coburn

  Loyalty, Party, People

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• Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions from vague or subjective input. The mind becomes aware without the direct intervention of reasoning. Once you can imagine something you can begin the process of creating it. Executives use intuition to make many product, investment, and hiring decisions, even if they deny it. Success in business may depend on an accurate gut.

  Jennifer James

  Spiritual, Business, Communication

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.

  Katherine Paterson

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Tired, Mean, Sarcasm

  "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

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• To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.

  Jillian Medoff

  Philosophy, Memorable, Political

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• 'Tough' meant it was an uncompromising image, something that came from your gut, out of instinct, raw, of the moment, something that couldn't be described in any other way. So it was tough. Tough to like, tough to see, tough to make, tough to understand. The tougher they were the more beautiful they became.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Beautiful, Way, Tough

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• It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

  Kingsley Amis

  Food, Cooking, Dry

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• I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.

  Frank Sinatra

  Song, Hurt, Pain

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I would like to see somebody who speaks for the underdog, for the
  people who don`t have this in healthcare benefits. So I would like to see
  a candidate who has the guts to opposition that America could be a land for
  all people, not just the land control by the super rich.

  Bernie Sanders

  Land, America, People

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• When you're exonerated, then the people who wrongly accused you should have the guts to stand up and say, "I'm sorry."

  Chris Christie

  Sorry, Should Have, People

  "Gov. Chris Christie discusses his presidential bid". "Fox News Sunday" with Shannon Bream, www.foxnews.com. July 05, 2015.

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• All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I could do it, it was Henry Miller. Not because I thought he was so simple that I reckoned I could pull it off as well, but it was his freedom and guts that really moved me to want to write all the time.

  Henry Rollins

  Writing, Thinking, Simple

  "#tbt An Interview with Henry Rollins". Interview with Eric Stein, www.brothersdepaul.com. January 7, 2015.

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• When you get older, you kind of learn when something is done, you just walk away. Sometimes people just want to keep fixing things. But you know it's kind of just like your gut that tells you, "You're done, walk away" because you can always keep fixing it.

  Rob Zombie

  People, Done, Fixing Things

  Source: onstagereview.com

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• The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.

  John Hodgman

  Reality, Decision, Research

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• I think as with everything in life you've got to follow your gut. If you believe it wholeheartedly, then it's not going to feel like you're kind of pasting on an idea.

  Toni Collette

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think I'm true to myself - you hear that actors have like plans. I'm gonna do this type of movie, then I'm gonna play this kind of character, and that'll get me from A to B. I've never done that. I honestly just follow my gut and I don't think you can go wrong with that.

  Toni Collette

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.

  Andy Stanley

  Leadership, Christian, People

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• I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

  Luke Ford

  Teacher, College, Fire

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• Highly intelligent and well-informed people disagree on every political issue. Therefore, intelligence and knowledge are useless for making decisions, because if any of that stuff helped, then all the smart people would have the same opinions. So use your "gut instinct" to make voting choices. That is exactly like being clueless, but with the added advantage that you'll feel as if your random vote preserved democracy.

  Scott Adams

  Smart, Clueless, Intelligent

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• How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie - people claim they want to be free - everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their securityHow can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?

  Jim Morrison

  Lying, Fighting, Men

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