Quotes About Direction

Everyone has an idea of what you need to do with your life. Only you have the facts of what you really need to do.

The germ of genius with a definite purpose is contagious. Otherwise, it's pathogenic.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.

I became impatient with my own aimlessness.

When I stood behind Yama-san in his director's chair next to the camera, I felt my heart swell with that same feeling—"I've made it at last." The work he was doing was the kind that I really wanted to do. I was standing in the mountain pass, and the view that opened up before me on the other side revealed a single straight road.

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Some day I'll find out what I want to do when I grow up.

How many millions there are who don't want to go to Hell, but they don't want to get off the road to Hell.

Lei li guardò per un lungo momento senza parlare, poi disse: "Tornate indietro". Le rosse figure esitarono. Lei fece un passo avanti e sbottò: "Oppure restate".

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

I felt responsible to use my gifts, but in future churches, that pointed in the direction of children's or music ministry. But, like many women in the church whom I knew, I felt neither a call nor a predisposition to children or song.

They were following me because I was ahead of them, which is no way to choose a leader. Following someone simply because they're out in front is never a good idea, but it happens all the time.

Leaders must be arrogant enough to believe they are worth following, but humble enough to know that others may have a better sense of the direction they should take.

because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting" (Ps. 139:23–24)? If you go on through life blindly confident but

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

Ikigai is the overlap of what you want to do, what you ought to do, and what you have to do.

If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.

I'm delighted to be joining City. It didn't take much persuasion from Mark Hughes; they are heading in the direction I want to go. There is great potential here.

I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it.

I grew up using maps and having a sense of direction, and now I have a phone. I used to try to remember numbers, and now I... can just call them up instantly. And that's great. But what's happening right now is that we're in a phase of human evolution where we're merging with machines.