James Clyman Quotes

I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

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

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.

Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey - but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Piety and virtue lie in obedience and conformity, while nothing is more repugnant than change and innovation.

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our house, that old ways are safest and surest ways.

A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.

I have an incredible compass. You can put me back in a country I haven't been in 20 years and say, 'Get me from point A to point B,' and I'll take you there.

I'm not a guy who wants to skydive and open my parachute at the last minute. I want to open my parachute right away and know what's coming.

My parents are not people who would want to rock the boat. They wouldn't break the law.

I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.

Security and safety were the reward of dullness.

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon.

If you get lost, you can always be found.

The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.

We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.

Draw a straight line and follow it.