Quotes About Direction

You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on.

I wanted to work on policy because I think it really makes a difference.

For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that work.

The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're going, so I always think about the future.

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.

3D doesn't work quite so well with quick cuts and I probably would have done some longer takes had I really taken that information onboard.

No matter what strategies you make, if you don't get the right script, everything is going to go down.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

My role is more like a chairman and founder. I am used to overseeing the company's heritage and our strategy.

Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people.

I don't really have any strategy for my career.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

We allow people to be creative. We set a direction, we set the vision, we set the strategy, but within that framework, we allow our people to be as creative as they want to be.

My objective with strategy is to be very repetitive, to be somewhat boring, to allow people to coalesce behind a common direction.

I think, in anyone's career, you have to map out some sort of strategy of steps that take you closer to the career you want.

As the leader, you're empowering talent. Once you've given the direction, it's a joy to see it put into action, to see people on every level of the company carrying out the strategy.

Because one of the main jobs of a CEO is to set the vision and strategy for the company, I'm a big believer in making one of the founders the default CEO.

It's very important that we all have a common understanding of our purpose as a business - what we aspire to - and a strategy for achieving it.

You can get so focused on a strategy and making it work that you lose sight of your larger mission.

It is an interesting thing. Every time I try and stray from the path of food, I get whacked.

Never stray from life's purpose. Refrain from counting someone else's blessings instead of your own.

I would say my strengths are vision and strategy.

Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.

You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.