Steer Quotes

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

I still wear minis and cardigans, but I think I'll steer away from shoulder pads.

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.

If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

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.

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.

I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

We steer completely clear of anything suggestive.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.

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.

One must steer, not talk.

Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.

I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.