Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.
Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author – and I don’t give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.
I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston’s intense, precise directions tortured me.
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.
It helps me rejuvenate when I use my energy in different directions and then come back to acting.
The road to WrestleMania leads us in so many directions, but we have so many amazing things we get to do as WWE Superstars along the way.
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn’t need to have the rest of the universities attached.
The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.
A lot of the qualities in ‘Killing and Dying’ is sort of a response to work I’d done previously. I wanted to push myself in some different directions.
Baking and coding involve using the same parts of your brain and a lot of the same skills, like being able to follow directions or create directions in a very systematic way.
After four seasons of co-hosting ‘Wipeout,’ I have been given the opportunity to pursue new directions in my acting career, which I am very passionate about. I am extremely grateful to all those at ‘Wipeout,’ Endemol and ABC, who have been so supportive of me through these years.
Actually I think Art lies in both directions – the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!
I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I’ve bumped into and the friends I’ve made here don’t seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help.
I think the American people are bombarded with information from all directions, all day long.
I get to a competition and feel out the slopestyle course and kind of see which directions the jumps are flowing and which way I feel like I can do my tricks.
People will try to tell you that all the great opportunities have been snapped up. In reality, the world changes every second, blowing new opportunities in all directions, including yours.
People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.
My wife and I are connoisseurs of films but in opposite directions. She’s a connoisseur of really good, classy foreign films. I’m a connoisseur of really bad, cheesy horror movies – so-bad-it’s-good horror movies.
I’m big on being positive. I’m generally so positive and happy. I just always felt that I was exactly where I wanted to be. And things have continued to go in great directions.
Looking back, the most challenging thing for me was actually directing. It’s very tough. Being in front of the camera is easy since the director can tell me what to do. But being the director and giving people directions is the toughest thing for me.
The lesson was an Absa Cape Epic can go all directions: to the good and to the bad.
‘What if?’ statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you’ll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control.
I’m not big on reading directions. I can’t do that. I’m just not from that world.
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
When I start writing, I’ll have a vague concept or I’ll just have a title, and the song just goes on its own direction. Usually it goes in many directions within each song. They get really convoluted sometimes.
Why shouldn’t a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?
There is no question in my mind that a ‘Brexit’ would deal a significant blow to the E.U.’s strength and resilience at exactly the moment when the West is under attack from multiple directions.
I think educational systems have to be more nimble, have to be more adapted to today’s realities where students can go in different directions and professionalize even faster. Constant retraining and reskilling and upskilling, whatever you want to call it, of the workforce.
My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions.
Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future.
People take everything out of proportion. Everybody loves to stir something. If you listen to everything you hear, there’s a lot of different directions you’d be leaning.
I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, ‘It’s easier to change directions while you’re still moving.’ If you stop, it’s harder to get started again. I still don’t think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.
Life is crazy. It goes in directions that you could never guess.
You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty candid discussions about what you have to do better.
I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me… I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely… I could have used a bit more solitude.
No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time – the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.
I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions.
It’s nice to stretch in different directions and use different muscles. You can get swallowed into Hollywood, where it’s all about bums on seats and how commercial a film is.
Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers’ struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.
Video games as a storytelling medium are, from a mathematical standpoint, a branching narrative. You start at one place, you can go in multiple different directions, and there’s a multitude of different endings.
Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed by a missile exchange for a couple of weeks in both directions.
At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.
It is very humbling to receive the Fields Medal. The words of a Fields Medallist carry a lot of weight within mathematics – for instance, in framing future directions of research – which means that I have to watch what I say more carefully now!
Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.
Every single person suffers; every marriage has some major battles. Life pulls you in different directions. But if you try, and you’re lucky, you can find your way back to each other.
As a screenwriter, you are so used to things going in directions that you wouldn’t have taken, so to be able to say, ‘This is how I intended it, this is how I want to shoot it, and these are the decisions that I’ll live by,’ I think directing is a logical conclusion of mine.
