Quotes About Guidance

There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented all my work, in every field except poetry. I could send her an utterly indescribable story, and she'd sell it to Playboy or the Harvard Law Review or Weird Tales or The New Yorker--she knew where to take it. She never told me what to write or not write, she never told me, That won't sell, and she never meddled with my prose.

It is an acknowledged truth that the constancy of a good father during childhood goes a long way to prevent a girl from letting herself get kicked around by jerkface male sadists later in life -- and I am no exception to this rule.

a technique known to psychologists studying problem solving as "generate and test." To solve a problem, all the possible solutions are generated and then tested to see if they offer a solution. It's a form of trial and error, but not as random; it's guided and purposeful.

F. B. Meyer, came across my path. One was entitled The Secret of Guidance, and the other was Meet for the Master's Use.

May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us: establish the work of our hands. Psalm 90:17

Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

Books from the ancients, or the yogis and shamans, are your time capsules from yourselves to yourselves…

Pray to God, but row towards shore.

treated them all as if he were their personal law enforcement concierge.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

I've always felt that a manager has achieved a great deal when he's able to motivate one other person. When it comes to making the place run, motivation is everything. You might be able to do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

I began by reducing my own salary to $ 1.00 a year. Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move. I don't mean they invade your privacy, although there's some of that, too. But when the leader talks, people listen. And when the leader acts, people watch. So you have to be careful about everything you say and everything you do.

The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve.

Pursue God. Pursue his will. Then trust him to reveal it.

When I was appointed a member of the Twelve, I said from this pulpit that I would rather have my children enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost than any other person or individual in the world; and I feel the same today, for them and for me, and for all of you.

Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.

Where do you think you're going?" Dr. Nokes demanded…. "What do you have for directions?" And Dad… said, "I have the substance of things hoped for. I have the anticipation of things unseen

No generation can do another generation's work for it. What we human beings can do at most is to mark out the pathway a little clearer for the generations to come after, and put legible signboards at the points where the greatest dangers have threatened us, in the hope that our posterity will read, understand, and be warned.

How you handle peer pressure -- the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel -- in the early years will play a significant role in how your children handle peer pressure when they become adolescents.