Steers Quotes - Page 5

• One of the things my friends would tell you is that I hang out with a lot of non-writers - just regular people like bankers and teachers, and I actually try to steer our talk away from my work when I get together with them.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Teacher, People, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.

  Zhuangzi

  Light, Confusion, Doubt

  Zhuangzi (1997). “Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters”, Basic Civitas Books

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• I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.

  Julie Berry

  Strong, Editors, Stories

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We take it into account from the very beginning and try to steer couples toward items that lend themselves to those circumstances. Sometimes we have to steer a little more forcefully - you can't fry French fries in the New York Public Library.

  David Castle

  New York, Couple, Trying

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• I disagree that we need to contemplate eliminating ourselves in order to move forward. Sure, I think a good dystopian story can serve to steer us on the right path toward a better world. But we also need stories that offer solutions to our problems that are realistic, and workable today.

  Annalee Newitz

  Moving, Thinking, Order

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I know a lot of people have very strong and definite plans that they've worked out on all kinds of things, but we're subject to a tremendous number of outside influences and the vast majority of them cannot be predicted. So my idea is to stay flexible. My only plan is to keep coming to work every day. I like to steer the boat each day rather than plan ahead way into the future.

  Henry Earl Singleton

  Strong, Ideas, Numbers

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• I knew, even at eight, that the confusion of values thrust upon me by parents, teachers, other children, nannies, camp counselors, and others would only worsen as I grew up. The years would add complications and steer me into more and more impenetrable tangles of rights and wrongs, desirables and undesirables. I had already seen enough to know that.

  Jean Liedloff

  Teacher, Children, Years

  Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.5, Da Capo Press

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• The plain fact is religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key deciscions made by religious people. By irrationalists. By those who would steer the ship of state, not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Reading, Keys

  "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• I always wanted to be an actor and I'd never dreamt that not only would I be able to do this for a living, but also on top of that I'd be able to choose and steer the course of my own career.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Careers, Actors, Able

  "Revolutionary Road - Leonardo DiCaprio interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• A lot of people find themselves in the entertainment business - or perhaps society steers them toward it - because they're beautiful.

  Nick Offerman

  Beautiful, People, Entertainment

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Don't ever underestimate the power of planning. You can't make your vision come to life unless you outline each goal-driven step at a time. And you can't reach your full potential unless you plan how to make the most of your purpose and passion. When you look around and see people who are the captains of their ship, invariably they have taken pains to chart their successful course through life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Pain, Taken, Passion

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• Did you know you can't steer a boat that isn't moving? Just like a life.

  Paul Lutus

  Moving, Boat, Knows

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• you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

  Ouida

  Women, Suffering, Crafts

  Ouida (1890*). “Puck. In Maremma”

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• Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

  Honore de Balzac

  Kindness, Heart, Character

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• Each petty hand
  Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will
  Govern and carry her to her ends, must know
  His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails;
  What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers;
  Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em;
  What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

  Ben Jonson

  Spring, Hands, Weather

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The alchemist. Catiline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair”, p.188

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• There are new ways of producing food, film, clothing, and research that steer clear of using animals. Some of those products are functionally equivalent or even superior to what we're used to. Now corporations, legislatures, and other institutions are responding, and supporting these shifts, so we're seeing seismic changes throughout society.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Research, Corporations

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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• On the whole, and providing one is in good spirits and feeling reasonably bright, it is not hard to converse for a short space of time on subjects about which one knows little, and it is indeed often amusing to see how cunningly one can steer the conversational barque, hoisting and lowering her sails, tacking this way and that to avoid reefs, and finally racing feverishly for home with the outboard engine making a loud and cheerful noise.

  Virginia Graham

  Home, Space, Feelings

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• Happy the poet who with ease can steer
  From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
  [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere
  Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Gay, Ease, Poet

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• I think you have to sort of accept that nobody really knows where it`s going so there has to be a lot of impulsive kind of attitudes. So it`s like a train that`s moving and you don`t quite know where it`s going but you try to steer it in the best way you can realizing that it may go in different places that you had no idea.

  Lars Ulrich

  Attitude, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• My kids have to maintain good grades. They have to be involved in activities. They have to report to me how thing are going. I watch for any activity that would steer them wrong - drinking, drugs, etc. So their skin in the game is knowing the money won't be there if they don't do their part.

  Michelle Singletary

  Drinking, Kids, Games

  "Color of Money Live: 'Can't have a dollar without a penny.'". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. September 22, 2016.

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• We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously toward truth... We have a choice in every event and every limitation and....to choose is to create.

  Helen Keller

  Choices, Soul, Events

  Helen Keller (1994). “Light in My Darkness”

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• In high school you just kind of go with it, you belong to a sport and you're lettering and there is a very social part. With cycling, a lot of people will steer away because you can't letter, and lettering is still cool and it's very important for scholarships and other stuff.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Sports, School, Cycling

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• One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I'm playing the same character all the time and I wouldn't want to be known for that.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Character, Want, Known

  "Saoirse Ronan, ‘The Host’ Star, On Playing Dual Roles & Wes Anderson Love". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.

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• When you're younger and a little more innocent, you write whatever [lyrics] comes naturally. But as you get used to writing you try to steer the sound and music to different music and throwing in the "kitchen sink" of sorts into the music. With that way, you end up putting in much more than before and you could even make much more next time around.

  Steve "Lips" Kudlow

  Writing, Sound And Music, Kitchen

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• Sweeteners, which can be up to 300 times sweeter than natural sugar, are known to increase appetite and result in overeating. Be on the lookout for artificial sweeteners, and when possible, steer clear of them.

  Mehmet Oz

  Sugar, Natural, Increase

  Source: www.today.com

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