Quotes About Direction

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown, Waiting for someone or something to show you the way. Tired of lying in the sunshine, Staying home to watch the rain, You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find, ten years have gone behind you No one told you when to run, You missed the starting gun.

Inside the big world that you cannot control, you have the small world of you that you can control. In that small world, if you look, you can see whether to go this way toward good, or the other way toward bad.

Quitting—whether a job or a habit—means taking a turn so as to be sure you're still moving in the direction of your dreams.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.

The human being has reason. This enables him to conceive of truth- yet what he says or writes in learned books is always but a thrust in the direction of truth, it ever falls short of truth itself.

When we look below the surface of our individual anxiety, we find that it also comes from something more profound than the threat of war and economic uncertainty. We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety, somewhat like that of the nation, is a basic confusion and bewilderment about where we are going.

elle avait des yeux où il faisait si bon vivre que je n'ai jamais su où aller depuis.

Ce qu'il y a en effet de frappant dans l'« accélération de l'histoire » que nous vivons, c'est que cette vitesse vertigineuse à laquelle le monde court vers l'avenir s'accompagne d'une absence de contrôle sur la direction de marche.

h?nh phúc là cái gì Ä'ó có th? ??t tá»›i, ch? c?n tìm th?y thiên hÆ°á»›ng sâu xa trong mình r?i h?t lòng vá»›i nh?ng gì mình thích, hoàn toàn quên c? b?n thân.

Yet the only answer to science was more science. Neither was there a lack of clever rationalizations. The ethical way out of scientists who had built the "ultimate" nuclear weapon was that it would make war impossible. The Cercle Érasme had a similar purpose in mind: They were set on taking the power-mad giants even farther in the same direction.

Life is never too short, we just don't do what we want with it.

When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass.

People who walk slow ain't got nowhere to go.

never had one when I was a kid." She pointed with her free hand. "Over that way. No, over there actually. Over there across the Bay is Oakland. You know where 7th and Central is?" "No." "Good for you then. That is where I grew up, in that vicinity. Now I'm practically a superstar.

I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, and she hadn't, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she thought. You take a wrong step and set your foot on a wobbly rock or in a drop-off and you're swept away, and all you can do then is try to survive. (83)

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

When you're trying to make things happen in your own time . . . We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps. Proverbs 16:9

You can't cook without a pot to cook in, and leadership is as much about strengthening the pot and controlling the temperature as it is about which ingredients to add when.

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

I don't think it's going to come to that, especially with the fact that we're going down, not up. We're going very substantially down, not up.

by shifting into reverse, jerking the wheel to the right or left, and shifting into drive.

Everyone had memorized a chant of names and villages along footpaths in every direction. This was a very useful map.

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.