#steer

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#another #being #career #differently #direction

If you have no good drive in you, your life will not be steered through a good direction. It will miss its destined station. Passion or drive is what moves the vehicle of a fulfilled life. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#destined #destiny #direction #drive #driver

His mind had been working away behind his high forehead. Unimaginative himself he could recognize imagination in her: he had come upon one whose whole nature was the contradiction of his own. He knew that behind her simplicity was something he could never have. Something he despised as impractical. Something which would never carry her to power or riches, but would retard her progress and keep her apart in a world of her own make-believe. To win her favour he must talk in her own language. ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#steerpike #imagination

You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today. ↗

— Wanda Jackson

#days #i #know #like #people

Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates. ↗

— Stanley Marcus

#convention #delegates #forth #hall #heat

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. ↗

— John Masefield

#ask #down #go #her #i

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential. ↗

— Barack Obama

#ambition #cars #clear #clothes #drive

I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways. ↗

— Amy Ray

#different #different thing #i #i think #just

Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#brink #collapse #country #credit #economic

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#child #parents #power #steering #supplies