Guts Quotes - Page 34

• A great shot is when you pull it off. A smart shot is when you don't have the guts to try it.

  Phil Mickelson

  Smart, Trying, Shots

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• Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial or not…I’m the writer. If what I write is good, then people will read it. That’s why literature exists. An author puts his heart and guts on the page. For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don’t believe in yourself.

  John Fante

  Believe, Writing, Heart

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• If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. And when you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first one to stand up and join in.

  Derek Sivers

  Motivation, Inspiration, Nuts

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• Yes, you can have it all, but not all at the same time. Set your own priorities, trust your gut and follow your heart.

  Quentin Bryce

  Women, Heart, Yes You Can

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• I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

  John Berger

  Art, Revenge, Past

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.9, Vintage

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• People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.

  Paola Antonelli

  Badass, Attitude, Technology

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• Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it.

  Judith Jamison

  People, Giving, Dancing

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• You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and they struggle to construct post hoc justifications for those feelings. Even when the servant (reasoning) comes back empty-handed, the master (intuition) doesn't change his judgment.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Strong, Struggle, Elephants

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.50, Vintage

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• Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

  Edward Albee

  Stage, Playwriting, Hanging Out

  "Shoptalk: Conversations About Theater and Film with Twelve Writers, One Producer - and Tennessee Williams' Mother by Dennis Brown". Book by Dennis Brown, 1992.

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• We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power.

  Chris Hedges

  Crush, Lying, War

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• People have always had this craving to have someone tell them the future. Long ago, kings would hire people to read sheep guts. There's always been a market for people who pretend to know the future. Listening to today's forecasters is just as crazy as when the king hired the guy to look at the sheep guts.

  Charlie Munger

  Kings, Crazy, Sheep

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• The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Feelings, Watches, Demand

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Mar 06, 2013

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• If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

  Tahir Shah

  Keys, Alcohol, Hot

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.186, Lulu.com

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• A brand is a person’s gut feeling about a product, service or organization

  Marty Neumeier

  Organization, Feelings, Brands

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• The Christians are always singing about the blood. Let us give them enough of it! Let us cut their throats and drag them over the altar! And let them drown in their own blood! I dream of the day when the last priest is strangled on the guts of the last preacher.

  Gus Hall

  Christian, Dream, Cutting

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• If you're going to be an entrepreneur... it's not all textbook. It's gut feeling, it's intuition, it's a feeling you have that you can do this and make it happen. I think you have to have a personality.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Thinking, Personality, Entrepreneur

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• Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

  Lee Iacocca

  Confidence, Thinking, Creative

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• Tattoo is the magic word. It hits people in a way that no other visual medium does. And it is not simply visual, but visceral. Everybody has an opinion about it and everybody has a gut reaction. And because they are permanent, tattoos raise all these issues about life and death.

  Don Ed Hardy

  Tattoo, Issues, People

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• The idea that any photography can't be personal is madness! I see something; it goes through my eye, brain, heart, guts; I choose the subject. What could be more personal than that?

  Cornell Capa

  Photography, Heart, Eye

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• Knowing you need to make a change isn't enough. You've got to find the guts to do it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Change, Courage, Knowing

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2017

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• Practice following your intuition in everyday things, trusting your gut feelings moment by moment and acting on them as best you can. As you learn to trust yourself in smaller matters, you will build power and confidence to take bigger risks and deal with the larger issues in your life successfully.

  Shakti Gawain

  Everyday Things, Practice, Issues

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• Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.

  N.D. Wilson

  Wine, Wind, Rivers

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.117, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's a gut feeling. And when two people have the same gut feeling, you have a brand.

  Robert Brunner

  Two, People, Feelings

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• Let's stop 'tolerating' or 'accepting' difference, as if we're so much better for not being different in the first place. Instead, let's celebrate difference, because in this world it takes a lot of guts to be different.

  Kate Bornstein

  Acceptance, Differences, Tolerance

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• The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

  Steven Pressfield

  Hate, Done, Critics

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