Quotes About Direction

I think people expect when you have a new Premier that it's that Premier's prerogative to look at everything on the table and say, 'Well I'm the leader now. What do I want to take forward and what don't I?'

It's not about scoring, it's having that presence out there and managing the game and getting everyone involved.

We all have points in our lives where two roads present themselves and we have to make a decision very fast. We don't know how it will impact our lives, but it usually does.

Life presents us with lots of forks in the road - big choices that define what kind of a person we are and how successful we become.

Soon, the Obama presidency will end, and America will have the chance to turn in a new direction.

Occasionally, you see presidents come in and provide a clear change in direction of leadership.

George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that they wanted to press, but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose.

I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.

And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.

You have to be able to communicate the vision to the people in your organization so that they know where and how they should direct themselves on a day-to-day basis.

We are moving the debate in a more limited government direction. And in a more rule of law direction, a more conservative direction.

You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not.

Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do.

It is not the script that defines a film. It is the execution of the script that counts.

As a company commander you have absolute definitions: the mission, the people.

Besides acting, I had learnt a lot about entertainment at the Bhartendu Natya Academy, Lucknow and the National School of Drama, Delhi, which I had not been able to put to use. That inspired me to take up direction.

I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become.

My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.

I am extremely, annoyingly compliant. I hate breaking the rules, and I love it when people tell me what to do and I can deliver.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

My department is to get actors to do stuff.