Guts Quotes - Page 6

• I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

  Bill Shoemaker

  Desire, Want, Littles

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• Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Cat, Daddy

  Langston Hughes (2004). “Vintage Hughes”, Vintage

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• You know your gut instincts are spot on about a person when you can also detect a water source in the soil beneath them.

  Dane Cook

  Water, Soil, Instinct

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• I'm not cruel, sir, I won't shoot you in the guts, but I will make you realize how much you took your toes for granted.

  Terry Pratchett

  Toes, Realizing, Granted

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• There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate - when a particular course of action just feels right.

  Tim Cook

  Intuition, Action, Feels Right

  "Tim Cook, Apple CEO, Auburn University Commencement Speech 2010" by Kit Eaton, www.fastcompany.com. August 26, 2011.

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• Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

  Naveen Jain

  Trust, Real, Heart

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• Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Know Yourself, Trust Your Gut, Knows

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• A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Men, Knowing, Each Day

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• What takes more guts? To fight for your own life at any cost—or prove that you're willing to lose it?

  Kirsten Miller

  Life, Fighting, Cost

  Kirsten Miller (2013). “How to Lead a Life of Crime”, p.146, Penguin

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• Being young is easy, you know, but it takes guts to be old.

  Blaize Clement

  Easy, Young, Knows

  Blaize Clement (2007). “Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter: The First Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.90, Macmillan

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• You just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart.

  Gerard Way

  Heart, Instinct, Smarter

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• The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

  Steven Pressfield

  Hate, Envy, Criticism

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• If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

  E. M. Forster

  Friendship, Country, Cheating

  Two Cheers for Democracy "What I Believe" (1951)

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• Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Believe, Night, Dust

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• I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me. My closest is a good thing, a quiet place that helps me hold these thoughts inside my head where no one can hear them.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Memories, Mistake, Hands

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.51, Macmillan

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• You don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what’s right, even when everyone else just runs away.

  Steven Moffat

  Running, Giving Up, Just Give Up

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• I've never made choices based on money - I always trust my gut.

  David James Elliott

  Choices, Made

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Heart, School, Character

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• I like guts in my leaders.

  Sean Hannity

  Leader

  "Behind Sean Hannity's Desk". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?

  Lance Bass

  Gay, People, Up To You

  "'NSYNC's Lance Bass reveals he's gay: 'I'm not ashamed ... I don't think it's wrong'" by Jennifer Vineyard, www.mtv.com. July 26, 2006.

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• It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

  Natalie Dormer

  Brain, Directors, Roles

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• From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Team, Writing, Heart

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.

  Douglas Booth

  Emotional, Attention, Pay

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

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• Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Gigs, Modern, Music Is

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• Sometimes we're actually right when we go with our gut and stand on principle in supporting underdog candidates.

  Sarah Palin

  Underdog, Principles, Sometimes

  Twitter post from Aug 20, 2012

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