Pankaj Tripathi Quotes

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don't go back on it.

I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.

I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.

I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things.

I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance.

Trust what you see and go play.

I'd do anything at the right time, and I would also do things at the wrong time if they felt right.

I just go out there and play my game and let the chips fall where they may.

I've always been quite a spontaneous person, so I would lean more towards, if you feel it and you know its right, then do it.

You have to go with your instincts.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the appeal? Tell me what to do, what are the exact lines from the script? Okay, I got it.' I am not that way. I would be a terrible bus driver. I'd want to be like, 'Oh, let's take this side road! Let's see what happens when we go down this back alley.'

It's good to be slightly ambitious, but I believe one shouldn't be too calculative. It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn't even have a business plan.

I didn't think; I experimented.

I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life.

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

I'm not someone who calculates things.

In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.