Quotes About Direction

If you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But ten years later somehow, you don't quite know what problems are worth working on.

Good teams I played on... just the tone that they play with, the energy they play with, how they go about it. When you get it going the right way, you get everyone going in the same direction and it's a powerful thing.

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

Head coach is the leader. He's the guy that sets the tone for the whole organization as far as the structure of the football side of things.

The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit.

Leadership means setting a moral tone.

A lot of TV and film commits to one tone.

Of course I know what works for me and what kind of tone I want my films to have.

I've made tons of mistakes over the past years, but if there's anything I've done well, if I see an opportunity, or if I see God moving or going in a direction or opening a door for me, I try to take it; I try not to hesitate.

People who aren't known for being artists do come in for criticism when they exhibit pictures. Paul McCartney, Tony Curtis, Mo Mowlam's husband are all at it - and what's to stop them? In my case, I don't see the comedy and the art as separate at all - you're just bending your creativity in a different direction.

Not too many people know what they want to do at 3 and then go do it.

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.

If you took a child in London and took their iPhone and took them somewhere else in the country, they'd probably not be able to find their way back. That's a shame.

When President Obama took office, I was transitioning out of the military and just seeing that he was taking the country in a direction that I didn't think was consistent with the Founding Fathers and with our constitutional roots.

We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?

It is not an actor's business to suggest changes. Actors are tools. They must just do whatever the director asks them to.

What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.

Motivation, passion, and focus have to come from the top.

When I do feature films, I usually have a very strong sense of what I want to do. I have topics and subjects, so I go for it. I even know technically what I want to. But in the case of documentary, the story comes to me.

The F.B.I. pursues cases against individuals and organizations, not topics - this allows each case to have the flexibility to go in the direction the evidence leads, regardless of what happens with other, related cases.

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

Brahmins never torment or trouble others and have been respected since ages for imparting knowledge and giving direction to society.

Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.