Quotes About Direction

I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do, as by the things you do.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.

If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next.

The secret is planning your work and working your plan. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? You can't stumble upon your destination.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.

I always watch rushes. They give me a sense of whether I'm going in the right direction. You work hard and hopefully get encouragement from what you see.

There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions.

When you're working with film, you can only shoot one angle at a time, and then everything has to stop, and you re-light it and shoot everything else from the opposite side, so it's really important that you stick exactly to what's written.

When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.

I think at some point I am going to throw in the belt and decide to stick behind the camera.

Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where you would like to be.

My career has evolved at its own peculiar pace. American careers are supposed to have a much more singular direction than I've been able to... stomach.

It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.