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Quotes About Direction

I wish I could direct a movie at some point of my life.
~ Anupama Parameswaran
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
~ Martin Luther
When you're an assistant, you're executing the wishes of your boss.
~ Brad Goreski
The camera must point at the exact spot the audience wishes to look at any given moment. To find that spot is absurdly easy: you only have to remember where you were looking at the time the scene was made.
~ Preston Sturges
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
~ John Donne
The idea of witches has always scared me because of the idea that there are Machiavellian forces out there that conspire to hurt others. There are people who do not have your best interest at heart and are actively willing to do harm to you and actively sending energy in that direction.
~ Ari Aster
When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.
~ Burning Spear
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
~ John F. Kennedy
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
~ Michael Porter
No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
~ Lewis Carroll
Without an identity, you cannot plan and you cannot convince a player to do what you want.
~ Mikel Arteta
'The Stepford Wives' was too big, and it was unsatisfying to do. Not that it was unsatisfying to do, but it was unsatisfying as a result because, as much as I loved parts of it, and I'm really proud of so much of it, the entire movie wasn't what I wanted it to be. It's my own fault; I didn't follow my instincts.
~ Frank Oz
What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
~ Sylvia Plath
It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
~ W. Edwards Deming
You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.
~ Anthony Fauci
I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.
~ Eddie Vedder
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
~ Thomas Aquinas
I have a theory that when you're lost on the path, go back to the beginning and try the maze again.
~ Amanda Seales
They've discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one direction, ours is going in another. Now, the Big Bang theory says that we're all moving outward.
~ Dwight Schultz
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
~ Aldous Huxley
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
~ Carlos Castaneda
When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
~ Annie Leibovitz