An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.
I think my dad [ Stephen Hawking] would have been pleased if I had turned out a scientist because he truly believes that is the most interesting career open to anyone. But he also believes that you have to follow your own path in life and so he certainly wasn't going to push me toward theoretical physics when it didn't look like I was going in that direction naturally.
There is no Yoda-there's no one who points you in the right direction. You've got to figure that out by yourself.
Happiness is not a place - it is a direction.
The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.
Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching.
Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.
Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.
Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.
Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
I fart in your general direction.
There are major challenges, when it comes to making a film in the Arctic. When you're filming wildlife and that wildlife doesn't necessarily take direction, you can spend a lot of time waiting, where you're debating whether or not you should press the record button because it costs a lot of money.
I claim my heart's desire, and I choose my direction. I will attain my chosen goal.
If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.
I was lucky, because Ewan McGregor had already been shooting with Roman Polanski for about a month before I got role. And he did a faultless impersonation of what it was going to be like. So when direction happened, it was like, "Oh yeah. That's what Ewan said was going to happen. " And so it was a little bit less debilitating than it might have been.
When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of an outfield-hit ball.
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.