Quotes About Direction

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

My advice to young people would be this: Don't move to New York. It is not where you will find yourself.

But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.

NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.

Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me.

Don't buy this 'believe in yourself' rubbish. Why do they keep telling youngsters that? There's no point believing in yourself if you don't know what you're doing. Once you've got a vision of what you want to do, by all means stick to that passionately and doggedly. Believe in your ideas. It's not quite the same thing.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Clarity of vision is the key to achieving your objectives.

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Find people whose morals and vision align with yours, and follow that.

The only direction I can give to an actor, a good actor who knows his skills, is, 'Here are those words. They're yours. Make them yours. Don't tell the text but be the text.' That means you have to be the emotion of the text.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.

I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed.

At a small company, so much of the trick is focus. Not only can you only do a finite number of things, but you have to do them in the right order.

Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?