Luc de Clapiers Quotes

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

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

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.

Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

I was directing before I knew it was called that.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

I work by instinct. You never hear anything new; when you hear advice that makes sense, it's something you already know.

Most of the time we do not know what we have learned till long after we learned it.

Children are like men, the experience of others does not help them.

The kind of writing that matters most to me is something you don't learn about. It's constantly coming out of what I don't know rather than what I do know.

There has to be a level of intuition involved in what I do, and the more you use that intuition, the more honed it is.

Sometimes you can almost play the game with a blindfold on.

Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.

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

I never knew what I was doing until I was done.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

You should always trust the instincts of children.

I just . . . knew, the way you know how to breathe or to pull your hand back from a hot stove.

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

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.