Larry Holmes Quotes

A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

When I play from my mind I get in trouble.

Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.

Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born

Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it.

There was no business plan, no model. It was just guts.

Some people have nothing but experience.

Sometimes I get this gut feeling about people - maybe I sense a hidden agenda or that they care for the money more than the message. I wish that I'd listen to that feeling instead of waiting for the truth to rear its ugly head. I'm a smart girl. I'm loyal. But sometimes I'm too loyal. I'm not loyal enough to myself.

I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.

But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.

In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day.

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

you have to play it out sometimes.

It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.

Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.

I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.

Most people who do have the instincts will never recognize that they do, because they don't have the courage or the good fortune to discover their potential.

Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.

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.

I'm completely intuitive and I don't like to analyze things.

I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.

Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.