Quotes About Following Directions

#1. The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions.

A.J. Darkholme

#2. I've never been good at following directions. All you have to do is look at my Ikea bureau with the crooked drawers to figure that one out.

Donna Augustine

#3. You're not good at following directions, are you?"
He grins as if saying, I'm a gang member, what did you expect?

Simone Elkeles

#4. The way kids learn to make good decisions is by making decisions, not by following directions.

Alfie Kohn

#5. Instead of, "Excellent work."
Try, "I see you circled every single picture that begins with the letter B."

Instead of, "Good job following directions."
Try, "You found your spot in the circle as soon as you heard 'circle time.

Julie King

#6. I avoided situations that might otherwise trip or jangle my hypersensitive wiring, and I learned to pretend I was paying attention or following a logical point when my mind qas off chasing rabbits in a thousand directions.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#7. There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.

Ben Katchor

#8. The price for being the best is always ... having to be the best.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Death might be waiting, but I was going to be a queen. would have my throne if I had to carve a path of blood and bone to get it back.
Death could wait.

Roshani Chokshi

#10. And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.

Lawrence Hargrave

#11. The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. Trying to make something as tricky as 'Room' really believable is extremely hard, and it largely rests with that relationship between the actors and the director, and the director and the crew.

Lenny Abrahamson

#13. What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?

Ellen Key

#14. To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#15. Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the directions he gives us.

Christian Dior

#16. Sex exists in the now without past or future. If, for a single second, your minds drifts back to the past or forwards into the unknown, the moment withers like a dead plant and the passage of pleasure turns to a road of dust.

Chloe Thurlow

#17. We women are so judged by the way we dress, and men are not. So style is part of developing your own brand.

Mireille Guiliano

#18. I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.

Yaya Han

#19. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin
Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r
T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause
Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.

William Cowper