Quotes About Direction

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be downward; when interest rates are low you want the average direction to be upward.

With some actors, if I have upward of 10 notes, I don't want to give them all 10 notes and overwhelm them. I usually parse them out three or four at a time.

A goal without a plan is a wish. What's your plan? It's on you, because you have to do all the work.

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!

A vision is not a vision unless it says yes to some ideas and no to others, inspires people and is a reason to get out of bed in the morning and come to work.

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

It's important to wake up everyday and remind yourself what you're working towards. You create your own life, it's not set out there for you.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.

Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.

It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to work for.

Always work to cause your horse to follow the path of least resistance. Then place an opening for him to pass through so that the path of least resistance becomes the direction you want him to go in.