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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with their blood and guts, I cannot watch it. So if my threshold to something onscreen is at that level, you can imagine how my threshold is to all the pain and suffering that is happening in the real world.

  James Wan

  Pain, Real, Blood

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

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• Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Dark, Singing, Honest

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• Skip your brain and go right to the gut.

  Elizabeth Streb

  Brain, Skip

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• The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

  Robert Reich

  Dream, Moving, Hard Work

  "The Meaning of a Decent Society" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2013.

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• Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Society, Novelists, Bears

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• Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He's a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head

  Mike Tyson

  Men, Boxing, Guy

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• I've got this terrible hernia. People think it's a fat gut, but it's not.

  Richard Griffiths

  Thinking, People, Fats

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• Imagine if your success in life is determined only by your guts, your hard work, and your willpower, and not by the wealth of your parents. I think it'll be a much more interesting world. I think this could change the way the planet is run.

  Andrew Ng

  Running, Hard Work, Thinking

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• When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera, my own shutter opens, and the moment's light prints on my own silver gut. When I see this second way I am above all an unscrupulous observer.

  Annie Dillard

  Reading, Light, Sight

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.120, Canongate Books

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