Quotes About Direction

No one leads the orchestra without turning his back on the crowd.

I often feel like the director of a cemetery. I have a lot of people under me but nobody listens!

It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.

It's hard to steer a parked car.

The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.

Remember the street car cannot turn out.

The car goes where the eyes go.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that's part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in new directions.

put the car in "d" set the compass to "n" and get the "f"out of there

La fuerza de voluntad es inútil si no se va a algún lado

Will-power is useless without a sense of direction.

The will of God is God's predesigned purpose for your life. The will of God is being what you are, who you are, where you are at the time. Since the steps of a good man are ordered of the Lord (Ps. 37:23), then each part of your life is directed, even when the circumstances seem otherwise.

He had to keep moving. It didn't matter in which direction.

Many brilliant people believe that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

What is demanded of the top man is indeed a great deal. He has to accept that he no longer can be the virtuoso performer. Instead he has to become the "conductor.

Management by drive, like management by 'bellows and meat ax,' is a sure sign of confusion. It is an admission of incompetence. It is a sign that management does not know how to plan. But, above all, it is a sign that the company does not know what to expect of its managers – that, not knowing how to direct them, it misdirects them.

Gerenciar é fazer as coisas do jeito certo; liderar é fazer as coisas certas.

with every choice we move either closer to God or farther away from him.

To empower people in an unaligned organization can be counterproductive. If people do not share a common vision, and do not share common mental models about the business reality within which they operate, empowering people will only increase organizational stress and the burden of management to maintain coherence and direction.

Shared vision fosters risk taking and experimentation. When people are immersed in a vision, they often don't know how to do it. They run an experiment. They change direction and run another experiment. Everything is an experiment, but there is no ambiguity.

Lastly, vision is not a solution to a problem. If it is seen in that light, when the "problem" of low morale or unclear strategic direction goes away, the energy behind the vision will go away also. Building shared vision must be seen as a central element of the daily work of leaders.