Quotes About Direction

She was a brave, hopeful woman and she was following her husband somewhere, changing herself to this kind of person or that, without being able to lead him a step out of his path, and sometimes realizing with discouragement how deep in him the guarded secret of her direction lay. And yet an air of luck clung about her, as if she were a token...

I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

I slunk off in direction of the cocktail table - the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

Le temps ne progresse que dans un sens et, qu'on le veuille ou non, il vous entraîne avec lui.

forces you to make choices and brings clarity and order to your ideas.

Being eternally at a point where two paths fork!

A ship may seem to be an object whose purpose is to sail, but no, its purpose is to reach a port.

Literature, which is art married to thought and the immaculate realization of reality, seems to me the goal towards which all human effort should be directed, as long as that effort is truly human and not just a vestige of the animal in us.

Note that the art of dreaming is not the art of directing our dreams. To direct is to act. The true dreamer surrenders to himself, is possessed by himself.

the chance circumstances of his life and the direction it had taken were dictated by his instincts, in his case inertia and detachment.

With Destiny driving the wagon of everything down the road of nothing.

O diabo desta vida é que entre cem caminhos temos que escolher apenas um, e viver com a nostalgia dos outros noventa e nove.

No siempre nos movemos atraídos por la luz, a veces es la sombra la que nos empuja.

He's a good boy, he takes instruction well; I just can't think of enough things to tell him not to do.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

As was usual with him, he began with the least important thing and worked around and in toward the center where the meaning was.

You might as well go one place as another, he said. That's all I know.

How would he know if time was going backwards or forwards or if he was going with it?

I don't want to be doomed to mediocrity in my feeling for Christ. I want to feel. I want to love. Take me, dear Lord, and set me in the direction I am to go

time goes forward, it don't go backward and unless you take what's offered you, you'll find yourself out in the cold pitch black and just how far do you think you'll get?

if you know who you are, you can go anywhere.

You have to stop confusing a madness with a mission

If you practice in a focused, concentrated manner and make efficient use of your time, you will progress a lot faster than if you were to use the same time noodling without any specific goals or direction.

I don't listen well at all. I don't take direction well at all. I have to admit that is my main fault.