Quotes About Guidance

I found my father through other people, through my older brothers, my high school coaches, so I had men influences along the way who helped me.

Good coaches, as we all know, can have amazing influences on boys.

My career direction has probably been guided as much by curiosity and my personality as by my early influences.

I am very proud of my mother - she is one of the greatest influences in my life.

I think my grandmother was one of my biggest influences.

Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.

My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.

Rod Strickland has been influential. He gives me a lot of advice, good and bad games; he is someone I really look up to a lot.

My faith, and especially my faith as a Catholic, does inform me and does guide me.

I was the eldest of five children, and although I never saw myself as any kind of leader, as the eldest, like it or not, you have some power inherent in that position.

My mom has been there for me in moments where I definitely needed her the most, and she has this inherent way of knowing exactly what to say and exactly how to talk to me, whatever the situation.

Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead.

If I'm your boss, and I truly want you to be successful... I'm inherently going to teach you. I'm inherently going to correct your mistakes. I'm inherently going to spend time with you. I'm inherently going to lead you.

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.

I do have an innate understanding of where a story should or shouldn't go, in a way that I don't think can be taught.

There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.'

My mission in life is to get to heaven, so the people I have in my inner circle I don't allow to do the 'rule breaking' that we know as Christians we can't.

You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.

It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.

I've got to tell you right out of the chute, Ryan Howard, to me, is very interested in my input in his hitting. To me that makes me really feel good. We've chatted over the years about hitting.

Maybe, early on, I had too many coaches, with three or four guys all giving different input.

Being an actor, you know what it feels like to be directed, so when the chance comes for you to direct someone else, you know how to approach an actor without scaring them off, without making them clam up, without making them feel insecure, without getting them in their head.

During my career, there were times we were inseparable, and I can honestly say that if it were not for Brendan Ingle, I would not have achieved all I did in the sport of boxing.