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Quotes About Direction

When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.
~ Jean Ingelow
Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.
~ Jodi Picoult
I'm never very good with marks. They're always like, 'You're not on your mark'. I was like, 'Oh, it's that thing you put on the ground? Yeah, I don't pay attention to it.'
~ Joel Kinnaman
I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.
~ Laurie Metcalf
A good teacher always refuses to have disciples! Let everyone goes his own way, in his own path instead of following others! If the direction is correct, there will be a meeting in the same place!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice.
~ Piet Pieterszoon Hein
Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face." (pp. 348-349)
~ Terry Pratchett
I think that's in my case everything I do takes so long because I don't have one direction. I'm just doing what I feel at the moment. It would probably be good, though, to have some direction.
~ Uffie
A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
~ Otto von Bismarck
The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn't help.
~ Janusz Korwin-Mikke
The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.
~ John Bercow
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
~ Dr. Seuss
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
~ Dr. Seuss
Be clear about what you want to accomplish, and whether the circumstances surrounding you are actively helping you toward the goal.
~ Wally Amos
Go, send, or disobey.
~ John Piper
Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!
~ Gene Wilder
All good management is the expression of one great idea
~ Robert Heller
Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.
~ Henry Louis Gates
She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.
~ John Grisham
How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.
~ Al-Shafi'i
I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals.
~ David Maister
A blocked path also offers guidance.
~ Mason Cooley