Quotes About Direction

Walking in circles your whole life just gets scuff marks on your shoes.

No society can include us without simultaneously alienating us from it. My belonging in a society always breaks down, which enables me to turn against this society when it takes a direction that I cannot accept. This is why I am free. Freedom is not a value of belonging, of being a member of a free society. Freedom becomes apparent as a value when we experience our nonbelonging, a nonbelonging that is universal because it applies to everyone, even those who most feel like they fit in.

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All my life I have entirely missed the point; and the turning, as I also have no sense of direction. This long period of uncertainty in the twilight land of the fuddled (it is now more than sixty years) has taken its toll.

The best time management tool is a clearly defined and definite purpose for your life.

THERE'S LEADERSHIP, and then there's "leadership." The first conveys vision, engenders confidence, and encourages striving toward common goals. The other doesn't.

I don't have a dogma that gives me a compass, that occupies me.

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

At Golden State, it was basically a guard-oriented offense and it wasn't either around me or in my direction.

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

In 'Purab Aur Paschim', Manoj Kumar offered me a meaningful cameo. He directed me efficiently and I was able to improve on my histrionics and appeared more confident in front of the movie camera.

You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.

I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.

I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'

My opinion of covers is that unless you're going to change and take a cover in a new direction, it's gonna get put up against the old one, and you're gonna lose. It's like, which would you rather listen to? The Righteous Brothers' 'Loving Feeling' or Hall and Oates' 'Loving Feeling?'

You really need to learn how to turn it on for 'action' and off for 'cut.'

With a labyrinth, you make a choice to go in - and once you've chosen, around and around you go. But you always find your way to the center.

I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited.

One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really fast and in many segments of it, not just DVDs. Pay television is dropping.

One of the things I wanted to do was direct. There've been a couple of times that a director will walk up and say something to me, and all it does is make me mad. Inside I'll go, 'Well, that wasn't helpful at all.'

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

There can be only one Captain to a ship.

Audiences go to the movies to feel - and I feel like when people watch movies, their hearts are opened. I think that's the best way to influence change in the right direction.

I typically come into any project knowing what the opening shot is and what the end shot is.