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In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.
I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.
Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.
We all know that we have to get off of fossil fuels. And we know that the world is going in that direction. And we have to do it fast.
I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction.
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.
There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking.
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.
All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in.
There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.
I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.
Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job, and life is too short for that.
I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.
Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.
I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.
The parties are all trying to reinvent themselves. I believe this upheaval is destined to take the country's fate into a different direction.
Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.
I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.
While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.
Any vehicle that conveys great songs and the ability to perform them, whether it's 'N Sync or the Backstreet Boys or One Direction, is all good.
That's the only time when newspapers have some influence, when they are pushing the British public in a direction they are already minded to go.
Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
First of all, I don't think that America is truly prepared for a biological or a chemical attack. However, we are moving in the right direction.
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.
While we were in the middle of 'Avatar' we got a lot of volatile reaction from fans. They were very upset with the direction we were taking Zuko.
There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.
I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.
No one can escape the iron rule that once you make a forecast, you know you're going to be wrong; you just don't know when and in which direction!
In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.
I can't help but see things in life through a humorous lens, so anything that comes my way is gonna probably be, you know, bent in that direction.
When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
And you know, I'm so used to going 100 miles an hour in every direction and sleeping you know, two, three hours a night, and that's the way I live.
The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
The connection has been lost between the country's direction, especially with regard to the way in which the economy has been run, and the citizen.
Music needs a visual element to make it tangible. So, naturally, there's gonna be a synergy between high-level art direction and high-level albums.
In my life, my parents wanted me to be a musician, I was supposed to go to Vienna to study piano. But this train wanted to go in another direction.
I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
I don't see a sea change by 2020, but I see migration in the direction of modernization and more flexibility in the generating system going forward.
What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.