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Quotes About Direction

I knew there were many side-roads but did not want one that would lead to nothing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I am suggesting is that the past, as we remember it, has little to do with causal or determining factos that have in some way made, or influenced, us as we are today. Rather, the remembered past provides us with the means to maintain, or validate, who we are today and to give focus and direction to who we might wish to become at some future point in time.
~ Ernesto Spinelli
I am suggesting is that the past, as we remember it, has little to do with causal or determining factors that have in some way made, or influenced, us as we are today. Rather, the remembered past provides us with the means to maintain, or validate, who we are today and to give focus and direction to who we might wish to become at some future point in time.
~ Ernesto Spinelli
Viele Wege viele wege kreuzen sich in mir und gehe ich immer mehrere straßen zugleich. ich bin arm. aber es kommt mir vor: dann wäre ich reich wenn unter diesen wegen einer ein ausweg wäre. viele wege kreuzen sich in mir und ich gehe immer mehrere straßen zugleich. ich bin arm. aber es kommt mir vor: dann wäre ich ärmer wenn unter diesen wegen einer ein ausweh wäre.
~ Ernst Jandl
The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
The warrior remembers but does not look back. The future is coming from only one direction and that's forward. The warrior has learned that if their mind is lost in the past, they will lose their future.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
To head north, a knight may use the North Star to guide him, but he will not arrive at the North Star. A knight's duty is to proceed in that direction.
~ Ethan Hawke
Oddly, with discipline, structure, and order, you will find freedom, anything is possible. Without it, locating your saddle may take all morning.
~ Ethan Hawke
Because we cannot see the roads we have not taken, we become, by defaults, advocates for the path our life is on.
~ Ethan Watters
Could she ever be, would she be, where she was going?
~ Eudora Welty
IL était comme un de ces voyageurs qui s'attardent dans les auberges en oubliant que le but du voyage n'est pas l'auberge
~ Eugene Ionesco
I have no interest in declaring how people should organize their personal lives. Jesus said, "Judge not,"26 and I take that to heart: if you are peering into another person's soul, you are looking in the wrong direction. But after a long life, I can report anecdotally that all the most joyful people I have ever met were married, and all the happiest marriages I have ever seen were arranged, in some sense, on the Ephesian principles.
~ Andrew Klavan
I could head east from Fifth Avenue and reliably reach Madison, turn south from 53rd and get to 52nd every single time. The scientist—or the Buddhist—might declare such perceptions were illusions, but not one of them would head uptown to get to the Bowery. They knew what they knew. They saw what they saw. So
~ Andrew Klavan
Sometimes it's very difficult to keep momentum when it's you that you are following. - Andrew Lloyd Webber
~ Andrew Lloyd Webber
To find, you have to seek. If you have lost your life direction, you probably won't find it between drinks at the local bar. Give yourself a break some time and space to examine what counts for you.
~ Andrew Matthews
There's a clarity that arrives when life forces you into a binary situation.
~ Andrew Mayne
I'm still not ready to throw away my moral compass, even if I can't read it.
~ Andrew Mayne
To become somebody,first you need to be under somebodie's supervision.
~ Andrew Neiderman
No man is considered just and virtuous who does not know whence he came and wither he is going. – Napoleon
~ Andrew Roberts
la vida de todo hombre se dirime en la encrucijada del Pensamiento o la Acción».
~ Andrew Roberts
The masses … should be directed without their being aware of it.' Napoleon to Fouché, September 1804
~ Andrew Roberts
Will going to this meeting teach me about the new technology or the new market that I think is very important now? Will it introduce me to people who can help me in the new direction? Will it send a message about the importance of the new direction?" If so, go to it. If not, resist it.
~ Andrew S. Grove
The absolute truth is that if you don't know what you want, you won't get it. So
~ Andrew S. Grove
The absolute truth is that if you don't know what you want, you won't get it.
~ Andrew S. Grove