Quotes About Direction

I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

Conforming happens so naturally that we can forget how powerful it is. But the thing that makes us human are those times we listen to the whispers of our soul and allow ourselves to be pulled in another direction.

When you are a child, your father is God to you. Then, as you grow up, you have different gods. You change. But does it really matter? All of the roads lead to the same place, and if you are going in the right direction, it doesn't matter what you are taking - a jet plane or a cart pulled by a donkey.

There were a million different things I could have chosen or wanted to do, but the path of an artist was the one that pulled me the most.

I don't feel like a 40-year-old. I feel more like four 10-year-olds, each pulling in a different direction.

When I do work, I choose to see every job as an opportunity to grow, as an actor and as a person. My favourite part of it is being part of a team, with everyone pulling in the same direction.

I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction.

Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

You will have many more goals in the years ahead. But do not confuse a goal with a purpose.

It's nice to feel that you have a purpose.

Everybody has a purpose.

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.

In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.

Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.

I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.

I don't know much about Britain. I've been working overseas for most of my adult life. So I'd like to see what sort of problems there really are here. It's a question of asking, 'Where are we going, how purposeful are we?' And see if there's anything that can be done to find possibilities for change.

It is very important to find a calling and pursue it.

I have intentionally not pursued musical theater.

Changing leaders is pointless if the same policies are pursued.

I think that I must be the only person who left California and headed to Dublin in pursuit of a career in film. The arrow is pointing in the other direction in most people's minds.

Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.