#direct

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. ↗

— Eknath Easwaran

#choose #direct #full #giving #learn

Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction. ↗

— James Blunt

#army #career #could #direction #experience

The Keystone Pipeline is one common-sense step in the right direction to help put more people back to work, reduce prices at the pump, and position our nation for greater energy security now and in the future. ↗

— Roy Blunt

#common-sense #direction #energy #energy security #future

It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#charlie #director #dizzy #first #i

As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction. ↗

— Don Bluth

#director #emotion #emotional #evokes #follow

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them? ↗

— Don Bluth

#day #director #every #every day #go

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#among #anticipation #bullets #direction #every

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#directors #experience #give #had #i

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#after #age #alone #another #because

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#absolute #because #being #change #completely