Quotes About Direction

A wrong turn doesn't end the journey. If you feel lost, just look at your map and get back on the road. The map will always lead you in the right direction."

Decide what you want, create a map, and get your ass out there!"

Your seed is your initial intent and it flourishes when your actions reflect that intent."

Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.

Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.

a goal without a plan is no more than a cloud,

imagine a line drawn through the main line of action—be it a moving car, a football field, or the eye line of a conversation.

Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan.

Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

If you were on a bus trying to go east in a maze of dirt roads in a large valley, you might not be able to tell your direction from moment to moment. If someone took a series of snapshots, sometimes the bus might be facing north, or south, or even west, even though all the while this is a journey to the east.

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

Those who knew but one path would come to worship it, even as it led to a cliff's edge.

When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I'm not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, 'You have to play it like this,' or I tell the drummer, 'It's got to be like this.'

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Morvern Callar's' a really weird film, in a sense, where I was trying to experiment with taking things in a different direction, and it kind of half works and it half doesn't. And I kind of felt with that film that perhaps I should have pushed it more into the realms of black comedy slightly.

Sometimes life has to tell you a little more forcefully: 'Slow down or change direction.'

As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.

If I had to choose, I would always take the less dynamic, indeed even the lazy person who knows what's right than the zealot in the cause of error. He may move slower, but he's headed in the right direction.

Compromise is moving in the right directlon more slowly than one might like.

Sly always had us rehearsing, and he always had something planned out that he wanted us to do. So it wasn't ever like, 'Well what should we work on?' It was never that. He always had the plan, 'This is what we're going to do today, shoop shoop shoop shoop,' and everybody's minds were in the same direction.

I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.

I watch 'Electronic Boy' faithfully every week - not because I like the show but because I'm interested in where the smartest T.V. producers and directors are going, what direction they are headed in.

I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.