Christopher Fry Quotes

I have just been the man in the middle, trying to make sure that we steer the right course.

People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.

The duties of the ruler are like those of the helmsman of a great ship. From his lofty position, he makes slight movements with his hands, and the ship, of itself, follows his desires and moves. This is the way whereby the one may control the ten thousand and by quiescence may regulate activity.

We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.

Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.

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.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.

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

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damned things take you.

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.

Indeed, follow your star if you want to head north and it's the North Star. But if you want to head north and it's Mars, you had better follow somebody else's star.

A leader who is confused or confusing causes too much anxiety, and a leader who is too controlling is revealing more insecurity and a lack of leadership.

You always want to know you have somebody at the helm who knows what they're doing.

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

I can't see how You're leading me unless you've led me here, where I'm lost enough to let myself be led.

Leader. Ship. The word 'ship' is hidden inside the word 'leadership,' as its... derivation.

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, -- come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried, "I am lost.

It's like many other things in life, Ellie. You keep on the path and all's well. You get off it and the next thing you know you're lost if you're not lucky.

Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you.

Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.

It seems acceptable today to scream for revolution, without any concept of what will follow it. This is just what the forces at large want, for who will follow a man who doesn't know where he's going?