Guts Quotes - Page 11

• Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Ideas, Differences, Literature

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.92, tredition

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• He discusses his service in Iraq, the wounds he suffered there and he says to me in this ad, until you have the guts to call me a phony soldier to my face, stop telling lies about my service. You know, this is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, and then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media and a TV ad, to walk into as many people as he can walk into.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Stupid, Media

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. October 4, 2007.

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• First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.

  Bernard Malamud

  Book, Ideas, Firsts

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.59, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Your gut is your inner compass.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Compass

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

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• You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut.

  Shane Claiborne

  Laughing, Details, Stories

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• I think the key to success is vision that adjusts on the way, but doesn’t at all falter. It’s about not compromising and following your gut to a certain degree, based on knowledge, instinct, etc. And not listening to the naysayers.... You develop strength through adversity. You have to keep moving towards your goal through huge obstacles.

  Millard Drexler

  Moving, Adversity, Thinking

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• Dont listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, theyd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.

  Michael Cudlitz

  Magic, Bullets, Chance

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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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• 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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• 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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• '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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• 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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• Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues.

  Hedrick Smith

  Issues, Personality, Television

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• I always thought my days spent in darkness [as a child she had cataracts and was unable to see for nearly four years] gave me a very special sensitivity. Much later, when I really wanted to hear, really 'see' a song, I'd close my eyes, and when I wanted to bring it out of the very depths of myself, out of my guts, out of my belly, when the song had to come from far away, I'd close my eyes.

  Edith Piaf

  Song, Children, Eye

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• [On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Aunt, Tears, Journalism

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• Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.

  Donna Shalala

  Leadership, Moving, Thinking

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• I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and the little living room in our little apartment there, and I'd skin my deer, and all the guts would go in the tub, and I'd sneak them out so my fellow students on both sides wouldn't see all that, you know. I'd clean fish up there and all.

  Phil Robertson

  Ducks, Skins, Sides

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• Because the truth is, nobody knows what's best for you better than you do. You have to really sit still and ask yourself: What do I want? Does this feel right? What should I do? I realized I had to go back and do what I had always done. Listening to my gut was just as important as listening to the advice of others, and only I knew what was best for me.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Advice, Listening, Important

  Jennifer Lopez (2014). “True Love”, p.28, Penguin

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• I kind of feel like everybody knew anyway. I was on tour with a bubble gut!

  Jennifer Lopez

  Kind, Feels, Bubbles

  "Jennifer Lopez: “I Was On Tour With A Bubble Gut”, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• You have to trust your instincts and hope the fans like what you do, but you don't gut check with the fans. If we're going to make a series, people are going to have a lot of opinions and if there's one overwhelming majority or one thing you continuously hear repeated from the fans, you certainly take that into account going into next season.

  Eli Roth

  People, Next, Majority

  "MIPTV: Eli Roth on His Netflix TV Debut 'Hemlock Grove' (Q&A)". Interview with Rhonda Richford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2013.

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