Quotes About Gut

What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.

In entertainment, zombies are so played out. I have a gut sense that people are getting tired of apocalyptic scenarios.

There are no subtleties in a war zone. I think that's why comedy does so well there. It goes right for the gut. So those punch lines start penetrating the bullet-proof vests.

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

The little brain in the gut develops from the same embryonic tissue as the brain in the head, and the two are connected via the massive vagus nerve. Most intriguingly, there is a nine-to-one rate of data transfer from the gut to the brain, as opposed to the brain to the gut.

serotonin in the context of your brain—it's often referred to as one of the feel-good chemicals. Serotonin, which is transported via nerve cells, is most prevalent in your gut.

In simple terms, that means there's a huge connection between your brain and your gut, as serotonin works to deliver messages back and forth between the brain and the gut. That, as you might imagine, makes it more clear how the two parts of the body are intertwined. Appetite, mood, energy? They have biological hubs in both the brain and the

except millet and sorghum, known as lectins. If lectin proteins are absorbed through a leaky gut (which normally would prevent their absorption), they cause inflammatory reactions throughout the body, including the brain. If the gut is leaky, the blood-brain barrier tends to be leaky as well.

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

a rival line, on his small beginnings out at the dam. Even his tools should be of wood and leather and gut, materials the insects would eat when one day he no longer needed them.

The diet is a twisted, noxious thing, all tortured abstinence and short-term fraud. I speak from bitter experience. As a restaurant critic, I eat to live and live to eat. And having a toxic aversion to exercise, there is little to prevent the inevitable bulging of my gut. Hence the need for the occasional diet.

When we turn to our innate wisdom for the harmony of mind and gut, we heal the entrance to the heart as it seeks to beat in rhythm with the world.

We are assaulted by so much information each day that it's easy to lose touch with the voice inside us, the compelling sense of knowledge, the awareness we have in our gut. In addition, we're often conditioned to dismiss our instincts as primal and animalistic, subjective and unscientific. We're taught to rely on facts and figures, data and digits, not hunches and gut feelings.

This wasn't about bringing justice to criminals no one else could get to. This was about the knots in his gut that coiled tighter and tighter, and felt personal. Very personal. And that in itself was shocking.

Opinion is death. Opinion is plague. When it comes to web site management, trusting your gut is the last thing you should do.

Thinking is a brain activity. Knowing is a gut feeling. Thinking is movement. Knowing is stillness. Thinking takes time. Knowing is now.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

i move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

Instinct is something which transcends knowledge

Instincts outsmart brains.

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.

Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.

If we are to appropriate money for roads, we need statistics on how bad our roads really are and, moreover, where more roads will be beneficial - it would be irresponsible to just build them where our gut tells us to.

Vitamin D is easily overdosed and can promote abnormal calcification throughout the body, since it increases calcium absorption from the gut; the increased calcium absorbed does not necessarily seek out the bones, however.