Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

The current is with us.

You use whatever lever you have.

Sometimes, you just have to take what the defense gives you.

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction.

Every aspect of your personality, if you're wise, you're able to separate each one of them and put them to use at the best time for the best position.

You have to use what you have to get what you want.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

If Mike Tyson was the voice of your GPS, would you ever not use it?

So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!

Do you know the way to San Hose?

You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels.

Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?

Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.

It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress.

Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.

I have never seen a man lost who was on a straight path.