Following Your Instincts Quotes

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling.

You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

Trust your instincts, trust your judgment.

I listened to that voice inside me-... Everyone has an inner voice; you just have to listen to it and trust it in order to be led by it. I did that, and it gave me the ability to live a life that's true to who I am and what I really wanted.

A huge problem we face when we're in need is giving up our intuition and blindly following instruction. Letting go works when we are following our hearts, but not so well when we are following a leader.

Built into you is an internal guidance system that shows you the way home. All you need to do is heed the voice.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

I believe in my gut. Most people intellectualize their instincts away, but when you feel something, you have to go for it. A Fistful of Dollars was a great instinct for me, because here I was, a guy who's doing Rawhide.

My grandfather died before I started making films, but I definitely learnt this from him: believe in your own judgment and stick to your guns - 99% of the time, you'll be glad you did.

Don't think twice. If it's a character that you feel compelled to play and story that you feel needs to be told, don't think twice.

You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings.

When I left Manchester I just took that as a challenge - to try to prove people wrong. And when you do, there is no better feeling than that. I knew in my gut it was the right time to move and I just believed.

If your heart, head and gut are telling you the same thing, then you owe it to yourself to chase it.

If you keep hearing the same thing over and over again from your fan base, you should pay attention to that. But that's just another bunch of loud voices in your ear. I would imagine it makes it very hard to stay in touch with your own gut. You try to think of it as just another episode, but that never works. It just isn't.

Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you where you want to go and bring you everything you desire.

I was 21 and had spent the last few years in Stanford University Engineering School at California. Many people advised me to take up a nice, cushy job rather than face the challenges of running a hydrogenated oil business. Looking back, I am glad I decided to take charge instead. Essentially leadership begins from within. It is a small voice that tells you where to go when you feel lost. If you believe in that voice, you believe in yourself.

You have to go with your instincts.

You always go by your gut. That's the best you can do. You go by what you feel, and you say yes or no based on what it inspires in you.

I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.