Redirection Quotes

I've got big homies that done been through the same thing I've been through and they made it out, changed their life and they come back and snatch young cats up and lecture them and let them know right way to do it.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

I have been in an experience where I thought everything that I had hoped for in my life was taken away from me, and I had to redefine what mattered.

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.

That's a good question. Let me try to evade you.

People have a tendency to do that - to go the polar opposite of what they've done before if they've felt like they've done something wrong.

My life is one long curve, full of turning points.

Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction

The guitar saved me from a life of crime as a teenager.

I stand before you a changed man. Use me as an example of an instrument of change.

Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, 'Affirm your child.'

I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age of thirteen. Because then I had to quit running around and began to learn something. Most of all, I began to learn music.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.

When things don't happen in my life, I believe that I've been pushed into another path for a reason, and there's a bigger picture.

The path to realizing our dreams is never smooth. Invariably we encounter bends, turns, detours, and roadblocks. Sometimes our frustrations make us want to give up the journey, but frustrations signal the need to pause for introspection and redirection. Frustrations are promptings from God to search our souls even more deeply to find our power and purpose, and to live it. Frustrations tell us that our thoughts and actions are not yet in harmony with our desires.

If you're going down the street and you're going the wrong way, remember - God permits U-turns.

I have been stubborn and getting into trouble since I was 2, but I learned how to redirect that into good causes.

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

I gave my life to Christ, and I thought that would be it for me, and He was, like, 'No, you're not finished with acting; acting is not finished with you. This is your talent. Go back into it, but you're going back into it with a heart that's not obsessive over it.'

It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.