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Quotes About Direction

Life is the path you beat while you walk it.
~ Antonio Machado
I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.
~ Ardel Wray
In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.
~ Ayn Rand
You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
A goal is the basic unit of life design.
~ Barbara Sher
It's healthy to periodically self examine your life, your goals, your relationships, and ask yourself honestly, am I happy? Am I on the right track?
~ Benjamin Stone
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
~ Bill Crawford
Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
~ Bill Crawford
I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.
~ Bill Hicks
There are six mental faculties that we have, and how we use them sets the course for our life.
~ Bob Proctor
I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck. ...I never wanted to get stuck
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
If you have life, you have purpose. It can't be otherwise.
~ Caroline Myss
You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you.
~ Cary Fukunaga
How you conduct yourself along the path that is your life determines how your life unfolds.
~ Chris Prentiss
What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
~ Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
The great political problem in our modern democracy is how to induce our leaders to lead.
~ Edward L. Bernays
The term attention deficit disorder completely misses this point. It is not a deficit of attention that we ADD-ers have, it is that our attention likes to go where it wants to and we can't always control it.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
All children do better when they know who is in charge. Knowing that they are not gives them a sense of security and order. The same goes for adults, to a certain extent—having a clear chain of command at work, for instance, is both orienting and especially helpful to the employee with ADHD.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
But history shows that logic launched from introspection alone lacks thrust, can travel only so far, and usually heads in the wrong direction.
~ Edward O. Wilson
A discipline, in thoughts and character, aspires and guides towards the right and accurate direction, for a vigorous and elegant life.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Adopting the wrong way; reaching a wrong destination; therefore, observe all dimensions before starting and moving.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Follow the time since time follows no one.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Sometimes things go automatically wrong, where knowledge does not work, but that can be in the right direction, praying from the bottom of your heart.
~ Ehsan Sehgal