Quotes About Direction

I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and I would get distracted. Oh, and I have absolutely no sense of direction at all.

Indiana wanted to go in a different direction, wanted to go younger, and the Lakers wanted me, so I said, who wouldn't want to be in L.A? That was a no-brainer.

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.

To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.

People travel north from Barcelona, not south.

The world is a fickle place, and it's not fair. But if you're getting most of your rewards from you, then you can use that as a kind of compass, and you can be secure in the fact that you're working for the right reason, and you're going in the right direction.

Acting isn't always about the amount of talent you have, or your ability to cry on command. The point is, how well can you take direction? How well can you put aside your own ideas or ego and listen to the ideas of the director and the people above you, while not giving up the passion and drive of that character?

I'm not interested in the past or in talking about myself.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.

I spent most of my time as an actor in television, so directors in television - it's such a machine that's already in place that I don't think you notice the direction as much on the set.

I'm a big believer in the notion that to know where you are going, you have to know where everything has been.

Like wildebeest and zebra migration across the Serengeti, investment managers and consultants, too, have a habit of running together and, every now and then, changing direction.

That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.

At 23, I know I'm nowhere close to where I want to be and where I need to be and where I'm going to be.

Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next.

And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.

I'm very objective driven, so for me it's very important to know who I'm fighting, when I'm fighting, and roughly the direction I'm working in. It gives me that little extra push to do what I need to do to get the sessions, to work towards something.

I don't care about the stats. That's not my No. 1 objective.

My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.

But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

I have an obsession with haters: the great mess of the Internet expressing itself. I love to type my name on Twitter and read everything. It's always enlightening to see what they hate about you: I'm not pretty enough to be on stage, or my music doesn't make any sense. It feels good to read that, like I'm heading in the right direction!