Christian Yelich Quotes

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

Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.

I didn't think; I experimented.

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.

I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.

Whenever I've done anything where I feel like, 'Oh, it would be smart to do that,' it's always been a mistake. Whenever I do the 'Oh, it would be fun to do that,' it's always paid dividends.

You can't think; you just gotta do things.

On crosses, sometimes I make my move one or two seconds before the ball is coming because I'm trying to guess that the ball is coming there. It's intuition. So I run. Sometimes the ball comes...sometimes not. But that intuition is working.

When you're out there and playing, things are going fast. You've just got to trust your instincts and what got you there.

You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

I don't want to think I want to feel!

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

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.

I went to the four levers. None of them were marked. There was only one way to figure out which one was the right one. I had to call upon all my Traveler experience and special powers to figure it out. It's called...Eenie, meenie, miney...mo!" -Bobby Pendragon

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average.

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person, you’ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.