Quotes About Not Following Directions

#1. People aren't things to be molded; they are lives to be unfolded. And that's what true leaders do. They unfold the lives of others and help them reach their God-given potential.

Rick Warren

#2. Look for beauty in everything.

Katherine Center

#3. The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other ... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

Ann-Margret

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. If God were small enough for your minds, he wouldn't be big enough for your needs.

Anonymous

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. You can take your Law," she said in a measured tone, "and shove it right up your-

Cassandra Clare

#13. I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

T-Pain

#14. 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

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

Alfie Kohn

#16. 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