J. Donald Walters Quotes

At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.

Trust what moves you most deeply.

Once you realize that what I’m saying is true and comes from the heart, then it’s easy. But if you see it all as a façade and just a presentation of affected emotion, then it’s not so easy, it’ll just confuse you.

An ounce of heart knowledge is worth a ton of head learning.

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.

When in doubt, we follow our hearts. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this...' He tapped his chest, over his heart. 'This is always true

Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do it—your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all. —Bobby Goodspeed

I just want to do what I feel is right in my heart.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood.

God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.

These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.

Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.

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

The type of acting that I'm interested in, that I aspire to, is where I try and drag a lot of myself into whatever character it is. They can be very different types of characters, but at the heart of it, I always wanted to be a very, very believable and rooted in reality. One of the ways of doing that is to root it as much as you can in your own experiences and then tint those with different hues, different colors to give the different characters their way.

The best Leaders Without a Title use their heads and listen to their hearts.

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.

Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

There aint no substitute for the truth, either it is or it isnt. You see the truth it needs no proof, either it is or it isnt. And you know the truth by the way you feel.

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.