Quotes About Direction

Trant's deep need to climb ever upward, crushing anyone in his path, the qualities, while making Trant an interesting associate at times, at others made him decidedly predictable and boring. After all, a ladder contained a single directional path. Someone like Trant rarely tried the twisting vines, tree branches, and handholds to the side.

Time is a blind guide.

How you choose to lose yourself matters. Trust me, it's all in the 'how'. It matters a lot.

Now, Hazel was not stupid. She knew that just because you see a piece of cake and a sign that says EAT ME doesn't mean you should actually do it. And just because two giant ravens point you in the direction of a path doesn't mean you should take it. But it was the only path she had.

It turned out she did not need the compass. It was easy to head in the other direction from the lair of the witch. All you had to do was move away from the thing pulling at you.

Exacerbating the pass-fail problem is that once we establish a goal, we rarely revisit it. Goals tend to be set-it-and-forget-it. The finish line doesn't move.

Goals can also cause a myopia that makes it so we can't see other paths that are available to us, the other opportunities we might be able to pursue instead.

Je rebrousse chemin, un détour assez long pour reprendre le chemin correct (mais j'étais capable de me rappeler où commençait l'erreur de route). Le bon chemin est surplombé par la voie ferrée.

Knowing your destination is half the journey.

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

I know myself. I'm not gonna be a mathematician or a professor.

Many professors tell you that you'd be good at this or that, but they don't always help you with that career path.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

I started out in the journalism program, but I got kicked out. I wasn't very good at it. It wasn't where I wanted to be ultimately.

We were grooving, at that point, in the same direction, but remember, Roy Hamilton and myself were going into a path and a direction that had no programming.

We build programs with points in mind.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

People want to know on an ongoing basis, 'Am I doing right? Am I moving in the right direction? Do you think I'm progressing?' Nobody's going to wait for an annual cycle to get that feedback.

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

The other states look to New York for the progressive direction.

I want to ensure that the Democratic Party moves in a more progressive direction, substantively and message-wise. And goes out and reaches people all over this country.

I'd like to do something a little different. Something a little less intense. I'm not sure what it's going to be yet. For the first time in my life, it's great to have choices, but I think I have to be very careful in choosing the right next project.

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.