Quotes About Guidance

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

Lance Storm taught me everything that I know.

We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

When you're an actress, you are a part of the storytelling process. You have to do the same thing when you direct.

I think you always win in storytelling when you let the best creative ideas guide you.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

I tell all the rookies that come into our series and all the young drivers they can come ask me anything at any time, and we'll give them the straight shoot.

A ruler isn't always straight.

I am not perfect, but my faith keeps me as close to the straight and narrow as possible.

When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

I had some bad influences in my time and, if my parents weren't there to straighten me out, things might have gone haywire.

I tend to make my most important decisions by following my instincts rather than any straightforward logic.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

While my mother tried to stem my truancy, it would be a complete stranger - an Army Officer in the Special Forces home on leave - who would be the mentor to drive home my mother's goal of getting me educated. His name was Saul Hassan.

It's a sad commentary when children feel they can talK to a stranger better than their own parents and ask him to solve their personal problems.

People need to be in charge of their development plan. They need to seek out their sponsors and their mentors and be very strategic.

I believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view.

Ten rules of thumb are still a lot for anyone to remember, so perhaps I should try to make things simpler. I realize that these suggestions have a common thread—a golden rule, if you like. Be curious.

Telling a story is not like weaving a tapestry to cover up the world, it is rather a way of guiding attention of listeners or readers into it.

As our children grow and mature in their relationship with Christ, things they need to adjust will happen far more easily when they are prompted by God's Spirit rather than coerced by their parents.