Quotes About Guiding

Costello must have been the guiding genius behind the 1929 Atlantic City gathering when Al Capone came to confer with the bootleggers of the East Coast.

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.

Das gute Beispiel ist nicht eine Möglichkeit, andere Menschen zu beeinflussen, es ist die Einzige.

Religion would, in many points, not be comprehended by the ignorant, nor consolatory to them, nor guiding and supporting for them. The doctrines of the Bible are often clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine. A perfectly pure faith, free from all extraneous admixtures, a system of noble theism and lofty morality, would find too little preparation for it in the common mind and heart.

Perversion interests me most and is my guiding darkness.

When the church either dims the light of God's Truth, or turns the Light off altogether, the nation begins operating and functioning in spiritual darkness. There is no moral, spiritual compass to warn when the nation loses its way and is in danger of self-destructing. There is no guiding light to show the nation how to get back on the right path.

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses.

Choose your intention carefully and then practice holding your consciousness to it, so it becomes the guiding light in your life.

He had not the knack of surrounding himself with nice people--indeed, for a man of ability and virtue his choice had been singularly unfortunate; he had no guiding principle beyond a certain preference for mediocrity;

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.

We need our literary heroes. Life is dark and complicated but they shine out. They're the beacons that we follow.

There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.

All my career I've been like a leader, and a lot of people followed what I did.

Teaching is bringing the news.

The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.

When one of a culture's guiding credos is that all men are created equal, any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.

I think kids need role models. I needed role models when I was growing up and I ran into a lot of different people and that's what helped me.

I always try and give a good example to children who follow me.

The Keynesian idea is once again accepted that fiscal policy and deficit spending has a major role to play in guiding a market economy. I wish Friedman were still alive so he could witness how his extremism led to the defeat of his own ideas.

Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.

Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

The organization that proudly declares on the lobby wall its guiding value, "People are our greatest asset!" yet the training dollar is the last one budgeted and the first one cut.