To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change – which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I’m very proud of that – and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.
Dad has been my guiding force. Whenever I am confused about choosing a script, I discuss it with him. However, I have said ‘no’ to scripts he agreed to, while he has said ‘yes,’ too, for scripts I have turned down. We have this mutual understanding that works between us.
In my view, Reform and Opening Up began with the abandonment of the ‘using class struggle as guiding principle’ government policy of the Mao era and, in its place, a commitment to economic development and social harmony.
Of course I have my father guiding me, and I have people who I have actually grown up with and who advise me.
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.
A lot of the music comes out of that conflict of wanting this other thing and feeling guilty about wanting it, and then it guiding me somewhere despite my kicking and screaming.
I’m not in a ‘starry’ position to be able to pick and choose, but I am interested in telling stories of substance with great directors – that’s my only guiding principle.
Guru Nanak Dev lives in our hearts. He is our common legacy. He is the guiding light for the entire humanity.
My mom has always been beside me, always telling me what’s right and what’s not, guiding me through it all, keeping me away from bad company and from bad habits.
Merlin was very definitely supposed to be an old man guiding the young Arthur to the throne.
My mother, Mary, has been a guiding force for as long as I can remember through the examples she’s set as a single mother. She demonstrated her confidence and faith in me by investing everything in me and the business at a time when she had just lost everything.
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
I think often that God is guiding me.
The single guiding principle that I try to follow, assuming blindly that the rest will fall into place, is to operate squarely in the present. I think it’s one of the most difficult things for anyone to do.
Wherever I go, I know my dad is guiding my path.
Super Bowl XXXII was a victory made long before stepping on that field in San Diego in 1998. It was earned with my brother guiding me as a kid in Glennville, Ga., and as a seventh-round pick out of Savannah State. Even at the pinnacle, that ring was always his.
Lyrically, I think I’m frustrated with this whole process of trying to figure out what I believe about the world and life. I don’t like to adopt a sort of guiding philosophy.
To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers’ needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.
The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone’s passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don’t get the best work from people if you’re guiding them versus them guiding themselves.
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.
My guiding principle when writing with other people is that it’s not worth it to give someone a song unless it hurts for me to give them that song.
The point is not to take the world’s opinion as a guiding star but to go one’s way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I’m having fun, I really don’t care what the job title is.
We used to look at Felipe as our guiding man that we listened to.
My father is my true inspiration. He’s a motivational speaker, so he does a fine job of guiding me.
We must face facts. I have made that my guiding principle in office.
When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.
When I had a senior bowler guiding me as a young bowler, I had Imran bhai and I would ask him before every ball. It gives you that added confidence when a senior bowler tells you to do something.
I never learned to be a writer. I never took screenwriting courses. I never read anyone’s scripts. As a writer, my only guiding principle has been to write about things that scare me, write about things that make me feel vulnerable, write about things that will expose my deepest fears, so that’s how I write.
On ‘The Guiding Light’ I enjoyed working with Jamie Goodwin and Ellen Parker, who played my sister. I loved working with Jerry Ver Dorn and Jay Hammer. I mean, there’s some great fun people that I’ve really enjoyed.
Sheikh Rahman had a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the Harvard of Islamic thought. He also had a long history of guiding terrorist groups.
When you’re on stage and the stars are aligned and the audience is as one and you’re guiding them, steering them… It’s a feeling of incredible potency, of unity, of such, such joy. It’s almost overwhelming to know that you’re making that number of people feel better.
Civilizations may clash, but they surely fall if robbed of light from above. It could come from the 1 percent or the 99%, but a guiding light is needed to keep the United States from becoming the rubble of past great civilizations.
For me, there is a guiding compass that just lives inside of me. Every time I’ve gone against it, something bad has happened. As long as I stay in line and honor it, it has really been life changing.
I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.
The first time I fought Mike Chandler, I was thinking about money way too much. I was thinking about the end of my contract. My focus was way off. I didn’t believe in the people that were guiding me.
An entertainment property – specifically, a wrestling property – you have to have a decision maker. You have to have somebody who sits on top, that is guiding the ship, that makes the decisions.
My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.
Let’s all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
I was raised in the Catholic Church, and for me, the thought in the Bible and Christianity, and the spirit within that, is one of the guiding principles in my life.
Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they’ll generally stay out of trouble.
I started making movies in 1977, and I didn’t even think about the idea that I would ever be on a television show. Once I finished the ‘Guiding Light,’ I was like, ‘I’m done with television!’
When it comes to casting for movies, it is a priority that you cast right. The guiding principle must be what is right for the movie, that is the basis you cast someone, not because so-and-so is a friend.
Material interests are not the only guiding light.
At Vienna, one of the audience affirmed publicly that my performance was not surprising, for he had distinctly seen, while I was playing my variations, the devil at my elbow, directing my arm and guiding my bow. My resemblance to the devil was a proof of my origin.
I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he’s given you.
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