Follow Directions Quotes

#1. Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.

Lynne Reid Banks

#2. School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for.

Vince Staples

#3. Children aren't helped to become caring members of a community, or ethical decision-makers, or critical thinkers, so much as they're simply trained to follow directions.

Alfie Kohn

#4. All my life people have assumed I'm stupid because I'm quiet, I never interrupt, and I follow directions. But I'm quiet because saying less is always more.

C.D. Reiss

#5. Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.

Alex Gaskarth

#6. I'm trying to get an acting gig on 'CSI' or something like that, so we'll see how that works out. I'm a singer, definitely not an actor, so I just follow directions.

Jason Aldean

#7. We invest the moment with meanings it may not necessarily have. We constrain and limit the potential outcomes by imposing external expectations, by imagining and anticipating how others will see things, what they might say...when in reality none of that might matter." ~Jeremy William Carling

Stephanie Laurens

#8. I'm going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I'm going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember - it's always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you're on your own.

James Beard

#9. There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

Frederick William Faber

#10. I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn't experience. But, it was the possibility that made every verse a heart filled prediction and every beat a direction to follow.

Shannon L. Alder

#11. If you feel like yelling because no one is listening to you, burst into song instead. You can even turn it into a joke - "You guys know how terrible my singing is. If you don't follow my directions the first time, I'm going to have to sing them. Loudly.

Angela Watson

#12. He sent Zuckerberg a letter proposing Viacom would pay $1.5 billion to buy the two-year-old company.

David Kirkpatrick

#13. I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.

Graham Nelson

#14. Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

Chad Smith

#15. Leaders don't wait. They shape their own frontiers. The bigger the challenge, the greater the opportunity.

Carlos Wallace

#16. Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.

Sarah Silverman

#17. Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize ... that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.

Cleveland Amory

#18. To reach your destination, follow the directions of your heart. It knows the way.

Debasish Mridha

#19. I have the power to multiply
Like all women, I am more than one

Neil Mach

#20. The teacher is not a person; they're a field of energy. They're a series of levels of attention. While they have a body and appear to be there, they're not.

Frederick Lenz

#21. Don't follow someone else's map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.

Deepak Chopra

#22. Just follow that one road the whole time! ... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions..

Gregory Maguire

#23. You'd better watch out - life can be dangerous.

Soseki Natsume

#24. The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.

Matthew Henry

#25. Life draws us in different directions, sometimes simultaneously. When you follow the direction that life draws you in, if you stay in a very powerful state of mind, then you'll see eternity.

Frederick Lenz

#26. I tried to make rice the other day, and it was a disaster." David tilted his head. "Just follow the directions on the box." The look of disgust that Raymond aimed at David dragged an unexpected laugh out of me. David looked between us in confusion, and Raymond shook his head. "White people.

Santino Hassell

#27. I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

Ovid

#28. Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

Ruth First

#29. Directions to our apartment should always end with " ... and follow the sound of screaming children".

Jim Gaffigan

#30. You have the Savior of the world on your side. If you seek His help and follow His directions, how can you fail?

Gary E. Stevenson

#31. The officer asks me if I want to press charges against Trent and I glare at him like he's grown an arm out of his ass.

K.A. Tucker