Quotes About Direction

You need to cultivate your passion and crystallize your vision. If you don't know where you're going, how are you going to plan a road-map for how to get there?

I took a long time after 'Curious' to find something I really wanted to do.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

I don't see myself going into the tag team division.

I don't want to do 85 scenes in a film that has no head or tail.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Everybody just has different steps in their life that they take to do what they should.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

When placed in command, take charge.

You're not making a decision if you come to a fork in the road. There is no 'it' to take. It's one or the other.

There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

When it came to the Hall of Fame, I've been very critical of the direction they've taken and I'd feel like a hypocrite if I just accepted this Hall of Fame while I'm so against what they're doing.

It's good that people have been surprised at the direction Broadchurch' has taken. That's what you want, to keep people guessing.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Know your lines; otherwise, have an open mind because you want to get lost in the moment. When you have talented actors and directors to work with, then it's pretty easy to do.

One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.

I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

One must steer, not talk.

If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I might not necessarily put all of the work in the project, but I want to help and do as much as I can and get everyone going in the right direction.

I know what I'm talking about, so that when I say 'do something' I have the respect of the people doing it.

Technology was changing just as we were getting started. You had these records by people like David Bowie and Talking Heads and Brian Eno that took production into a whole new direction. That really influenced us, and pushed us to find that early sound we had.

I want a leader that sets out a path. I want one that doesn't just talk about cuts, but talks about the shining city on the hill. We're only going to get out of this problem if we grow this economy.