Quotes About Guidance

Rampone and the other experienced players gave me plenty of support when I first came into the national team in 2013.

To make a man happy, treat him like a dog - plenty of affection and a loose leash.

I can't imagine my loved ones being in this world without anybody to turn to, without any support or encouragement, guidance in any shape, form or fashion. But there's such a large population of people and that's their plight. Through no fault of their own. Sometimes parents die, sometimes parents can't take care of them - all kinds of misfortunes.

There's more to directing than plotting scenes out.

I don't have to do a lot to my eyebrows. My mom always told me not to pluck them, which is great advice.

My dad was actually my first mentor. Decent man, hard-working man, never missed a day of work plumber.

If I could turn into my old coaches, or my parents, then I'd consider that a definite plus.

My mentor made me say a poem over and over. 'Stop! That's not your voice. Start again.' I was sobbing by the end, but it drilled into my head that my voice is important.

In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?

I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind of journey.

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.

Once you see the leader of the team, the point guard of the team who has the ball pretty much the whole time in the game directing everybody, I think it just rubs off on everybody.

I'll try to help everybody. That's what I try to do as a point guard.

As a point guard, I'm a coach on the floor. I know that.

I don't know if my father realizes this, but I remember sitting there watching 'Apocalypse Now,' watching Pacino in 'Scarface' and watching James Dean in 'East of Eden' with him. And him he's not in the arts at all just pointing out 'the greats.'

In the area I grew up, there were loads of gangs and stuff like that, and I was a bit of a fighter growing up. So, it was easy to be attracted to it, but I had my brother there giving me good advice, telling me it's pointless joining gangs, and things like that. I've always listened to him.

When it comes to dieting, I'm the kind of person that likes to be told what to do. I don't like to count points, etc. I don't want to have a lot of choices.

Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music.

Leadership is more about clarity than it is about control.

My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman.

My father, my mother, and then my father was always on top of me - 'Keep your nose clean. Do you love what you're doing?' 'Yes.' 'Then be aware, or you're going to lose it.'

This would sound cliched, but my parents have been my biggest support system.

My goal with any reading is always to give the client what they are meant to hear.