My kids have to maintain good grades. They have to be involved in activities. They have to report to me how thing are going. I watch for any activity that would steer them wrong - drinking, drugs, etc. So their skin in the game is knowing the money won't be there if they don't do their part.
I don't think of my opponents in the sense that I don't think of them consciously, I don't steer it one way or the other.
The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at the helm and steer the ship. A superficial observer would believe that they are supreme. But they are not. They are bound to obey unconditionally the captain's orders. The captain is the consumer. . . . [Consumers] make poor people rich and rich people poor. They determine precisely what should be produced, in what quality, and in what quantities.
In my experience, if you steer clear of dogma and muster up more love than you thought you had to give, then your vitality increases, satisfaction sets in, sweetness surfaces. I believe in the creative power of good feelings. I'm convinced that the desire to be real is everyone's divine imperative.
You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.
I try to encourage people to identify the things in life that they really want to do, so that over a period of time they can design or steer their life towards those things.
Always trust your gut and your intuition will steer you right, every time.
Let us protect our children; and let us not allow them to grow up into emptiness and nothingness, to the avoidance of good hard work, to introspection and analysis without deeds, or to mechanical actions without thought and consideration. Let us steer them away from the harmful chase after material things and the damaging passion for distractions. . . Let us educate them to stand with their feet rooted in God's earth, but with their heads reaching even into heaven, there to behold truth.
I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
When I am in charge of a vessel, I always command; nobody commands but me. I take all the responsibility, all the risks, all the hardships that my office would call upon me to take. I do not steer by any man's compass but my own.
My wife, the star I steer by.
We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.
Any fool can steer a ship, sir. Its just knowing where to take it.
My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
In my experience, there's only one thing that will always steer you toward success: That's to have a vision and to stick with it. . . Once I have a vision for a new venture, I'm going to ride that vision until the wheels come off.
Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Now it's time for India to steer ourselves, ride the waves and decide on our direction, destination and speed.
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.