#steer

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water. ↗

— George Saunders

#bonus #character #clients #convey #deciding

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born. ↗

— Hun Sen

#ensuring #generations #lasting #legacies #lessons

One must steer, not talk. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#steer #talk

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#brings #fortune #some #steered

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#about #course #give #happy #man

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#band #bare #bones #could #couple

I shall live alone. Always alone. In a house or a tree.' Fuchsia started to chew at a fresh grass blade. 'Someone will come then, if I live alone. Someone from another kind of world - a new world - not from this world, but someone who is different, and he will fall in love with me at once because I live alone and aren't like the other beastly things in this world, and he'll enjoy having me because of my pride. ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#steerpike #love

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. ↗

— Roald Amundsen

#always #first #gratitude #ice #increased

But haven't all ambitious people something of the monstrous about them? You, sir, for instance, if you will forgive me, are a little bit monstrous. ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#titus-groan #forgiveness

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#attached #car #engine #free #never