Jeff Gutt Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've only twice in my life come across someone with both high IQ and high EQ naturally; and that was because their parents were super high EQ, and the parents just EQ'd the hell out of them. They're inevitably very successful because now you've got someone who's sharper than the average person and well-rounded, too.
-
It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
-
Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
-
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
-
I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
-
If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
-
I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
-
I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
-
In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
-
You have to be resilient.
-
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
-
I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm constantly growing.
-
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
-
I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
-
How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
-
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
-
I don't know how to play evil.
-
The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.
-
What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"
-
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
-
We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
-
The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
-
Making music with people is a very intimate process.
