Cynthia Ozick Quotes

The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

Cynthia Ozick

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• I allow my intuition to lead my path.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Path
  • Intuition
  • Lead

• I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Understand
  • Find
  • Start

• The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • You
  • Drama

• What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Think
  • Better

• Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Way
  • Spiritual
  • Intuition

• I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • School
  • Door
  • Doing

• I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • You
  • Places
  • Toilet

• I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Book
  • Nature

• The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Enemy

• I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • Work
  • Together
  • Trust

• All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Good
  • Done
  • Career

• Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • May
  • You
  • Environment

• The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Beginning

• My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
  • Justice
  • Angry

• I think I'm a story-based artiste. So I would opt for the performance-oriented role. I usually go by intuition while choosing a script. Also, I do not analyse my performance, nor do I bother about how my film has been performing at the box office. I personally love challenges and am game for taking up things which I haven't attempted before.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Game
  • Challenges
  • Role

• It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Reason
  • Intuition

• He picked up from me a certain way of thinking, certain logic, certain cut of mind. He has got from his mother a facility with words, and a certain intuition. So please do give him some slack, if you find that he thinks slowly, and speaks even more slowly.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of the a priori.

  

  Ernest Sosa
  • Intuition
  • Philosophers
  • Epistemology

• God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Faith
  • Terms

• Dance classes are not designed to be workouts - they're designed to teach skill.

  

  Anna Kaiser
  • Dance
  • Teach
  • Skill

• I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.

  

  Kevin Pietersen
  • Work
  • Night
  • Passion

• You have to be careful not to make music something you don't want to do. Which happens. I've gotten off the road and been like, 'I hate it. I hate singing, I hate playing guitar.' Six days later, I'm in my bedroom singing at the top of my lungs because I love it so much.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Singing

• The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Intuition