Quotes About Guidance

Instead of becoming a woman of the world, become a woman of the Word.

I've had a lot of coaches at my high school and at Stanford and in the NBA who helped me. Bill Cartwright comes to mind.

Working on '2001' was my film school. Stanley Kubrick was my mentor.

America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska.

Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star.

I believe in the morals that I do. I believe in the projects I take part in and I think that has been my north star.

Indeed, follow your star if you want to head north and it's the North Star. But if you want to head north and it's Mars, you had better follow somebody else's star.

There's no night without stars.

It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

How can we ask for our young stars to have a high level of responsibility if we are not demonstrating that same level of responsibility towards them?

When you gaze at stars and think about planets, the places it takes your imagination are amazing! You look up the sky, and you know the stars have always been here; they were referenced in biblical times and have always been present. They are somewhere up there in the future, and they guide you; they make you feel safe.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Helping other people develops your leadership skills, and people start to see you as a natural leader.

People usually think with their brain or go with their heart, but a good place to start is if you have a gut feeling.

For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money. But that's especially true if you don't have anybody to guide you.

When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four. I had people telling me how to preserve myself.

We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

People are generally badly advised when they're starting out in the creative field.

I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I was four.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.

I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.

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