Quotes About Direction

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.

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A Lighthouse brand is one that has a very clear sense of where it stands, and why it stands there. This sense of self is built on rock—a

Jay lurched in one direction, jerked back, lurched in another, tripped for no reason. He finally made it through a gauntlet of invisible obstacles and crouched behind a water fountain shaped like a hippopotamous throwing up.

The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.

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in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might chuse to impress upon it. If those two principles coincide and act in the same direction, the game of human society will go on easily and harmoniously, and is very likely to be happy and successful. If they are opposite or different, the game will go on miserably, and the society must be at all times in the highest degree of disorder.

All we are given is possibilities— to make ourselves one thing or another. JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET

As the Russians say, getting what you want sometimes requires moving like the knight in chess: forward and to the left.

Everything is the path.

If you want to see sharks, I'd go to the port side. That's the left side for you landlubbers.

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

Ciro pointed through the

woman, Lucia. Listen to me. A woman is not like a man. She doesn't get to choose. She follows her heart, and that's what makes the map

They long for shelter and do not ask about boundless horizons. Otherwise they would find themselves going with him on his explosive path.

Walk this way

Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom.

If "what is the size of the market?" is the first question your company asks itself, then you are taking the wrong road to success.

And I wondered, with mounting anxiety, What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?

The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of material accumulation that should instead be only one of many factors determining the direction of our lives under a more truthful, more broadly defined conception of ourselves.

At the end of seven hundred and twelve pages of this manuscript,' he had reported, 'after innumerable griefs at being drowned in unfathomable developments and irritating impatience at never being able to rise to the surface – one doesn't have a single, but not a single clue of what this is about. What is the point of all this? What does it all mean? Where is it all leading? Impossible to know anything about it!

According to this view, love is simply a direction, not a place, and burns itself out with the attainment of its goal, the possession (in bed or otherwise) of the loved one.

One would never imagine that a good pot or shoe could result from intuition alone; why then assume that the more complex task of directing one's life could be undertaken without any sustained reflection on premises or goals?