Charles de Lint Quotes

When I was small I didn't really know what i was doing. I just sang and it came out sounding pretty good. I just do it and it happens.

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our indispensable tool for navigating, for feeling our way through, the much larger domain of stuff that isn't susceptible to proof or disproof, that isn't checkable against the physical universe.

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be - an actress.' I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation.

My Dad has given me a lot of advice, but this advice comes especially from the attitude point of view. He's never told me how to drive a car, how to do a corner, nothing like that. He believe this comes from the talent. You are born with it or you are not born with it.

I don't remember making a decision about music. I just always knew it was what I was going to do.

I think the people that are best at something, they don't think about it much. That's the whole key to being good at anything.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

It can't be bought. It can't be taught. It must be caught.

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.

Writing is above all a question of instinct.

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

I'm better when I'm an autodidact and things just come. Or you're just blessed. I'm not bragging or anything, it just comes to you.

I have a gift. I just know what I'm doing.

All that you can imagine you already know.

Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

If it feels right, do it. If it feels wrong, don't.

I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.

Sometimes you audition and you just know that this is going to come to you.

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.