Quotes About Direction

if management lets itself drift, it invariably drifts in the direction of thinking of itself as producing goods and services, not customer satisfactions.

Mooreland is a long way to go to not to be anywhere when you get there.

Ever forward, my darling wind.

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.

If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

I have very talented art directors in my agency who start out telling me, 'Well, this is what the picture is... ' I ask, 'Well, what's the headline?' and they say, 'We haven't done that yet, but it looks this way.' But I'm still writing copy, almost every day.

As an actor, you see a sliver of how the show is made, but to see the actual writing process and the re-writing process and the casting process and art direction and set design - all of this is happening in a very intense period.

I've always written the storyboards for the music videos, and it's been hard working with directors trying to get them to understand what I'm thinking.

Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. You will always be successful.

Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.

Philly ain't a good environment for you when you headed in a different direction. Bad things happen left and right. You might walk up the street, make a wrong turn, and your whole life could flip.

It's so easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things. So seductive to spend your finest hours climbing mountains that, at the end, turn out to be the wrong ones.

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.

The mark of a bad leader is not to make the wrong decision. It is to make no decision at all.

Direction is more important than speed. You can go fast in the wrong direction.

A positive attitude is a choice, like walking to the other side of a street to avoid trouble or making a 180-degree turn when you feel you're heading in the wrong direction.

When you're growing up, you need to stay around people who are headed in the right direction and stay away from people who will take you in the wrong direction.

Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.

I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.

I know that I am not entitled to anything, and when somebody thinks they are, that's a step in the wrong direction.