Prime Directive Quotes

#1. The Prime Directive is a nice ideal, but have you noticed it never works in practice?

Una McCormack

#2. Too often our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all.

Leonard Pitts

#3. The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.

William Friedkin

#4. Corruption is a true enemy to development.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

#5. You should have told me earlier. It was an expensive lesson," I said. "It drained my emotional bank account.

Alex Brunkhorst

#6. If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction.

Mitch McConnell

#7. So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.

Sam Altman

#8. The professor is stumped about why the decline is happening with the wolves and what, if anything, we can do to help them. You see, the problem is we've let nature take its course here. We observe but don't interfere. Kind of like the Prime Directive in Star Trek.

Marie Zhuikov

#9. I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.

Daniel Handler

#10. Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

Jonathan Swift

#11. People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. Yeah, but you're a girl. The braver species.

Gena Showalter

#13. When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.

Cliff Richard

#14. The Prime Directive exists to remind us that we are not gods. We don't get to reorganize every world, every civilization, every existence out here in our own image,

Kirsten Beyer

#15. Fantasies hurt. They hurt hard and deep. They lifted you up to places that you could never reach, then they let you down with a crash.

Peter Lerangis

#16. I like to show subjects inside a sealed veneer. There's a sense that you can't get in.

Steven Klein

#17. Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.

Jim Rohn

#18. It's like the prime directive on Star Trek. You have to let the planet evolve at its own pace. You can't introduce hyperspace or warp speed until they discover it for themselves.

Kami Garcia

#19. Robbing someone of their smile and putting it on your own face doesn't make you happy.

Tablo

#20. I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

Chang-rae Lee

#21. Angela King is a lovely person with a tremendous sense of art.

Peter Max

#22. Stupid men, always thinking they're the ones who get to do the rescuing.

Peadar O'Guilin