Marisha Pessl Quotes

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

People will only follow you if they see you're ahead, are convinced you know the route, trust you, and want to get there too.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

Not everybody who has a vision is a leader, but every leader has a vision.

I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

You can be the most intelligent person, and you can have so much potential, but if you don't have a guide by which to channel that energy, then a lot of times, it's futile.

You need to realise that you must have something to aim for, something to drive you.

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

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.

We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.