Johnnie Cochran Quotes

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.

In my work, I'm called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays, and holding a map makes me happy.

If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

I really like to have a bit of direction, you know?

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.

You don't build a great castle just all at once.

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.

The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter.

You have to know where you were going in order to get there.

Direction determines destination.

Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.