Quotes About Direction

Sometimes the impressions are just general feelings. Sometimes the direction comes so clearly and so unmistakably that it can be written down like spiritual dictation.

Know your purpose and you can climb any mountain.

He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him.

When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward!

Do you wish to take control of your life? Begin by focusing on steering the storm, rather than where the lightening strikes.

Discernment is a light of protection and direction in a world that grows increasingly dark.

Your life will fly by, so make sure you're the pilot.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

There is no such thing as life in-between.

[My] career was sputtering until [I] did a 360 and got headed in the right direction.

Had Newton served on more faculty committees at Cambridge, his first law of motion might have read: A decisionmaking body at rest or in motion tends to stay at rest or in motion in the same direction unless acted upon by an outside force.

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

The perfection of means and the confusion of ends seems to be our problem.

I find the idea quite intolerable that an electron exposed to radiation should choose of its own free will not only its moment to jump off but its direction. In that case I would rather be a cobbler, or even an employee in a gaming house, than a physicist.

The action of the earth on the stone takes place indirectly. The earth produces in its surroundings a gravitational field, which acts on the stone and produces its motion of fall...The intensity and direction of the field at points farther removed...are thence determined by the law which governs the properties in space of the gravitational fields themselves.

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

If you want to live a happy life tie it to goal. Not to people or things.

am quite aware that it is necessary for the achievement of the objective of an organization that one man should do the thinking and directing and generally bear the responsibility. But the led must not be coerced, they must be able to choose their leader. An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

What's your next step, my friend? If you know, tell me quickly so that I may adopt your method with all speed.

Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east...