Quotes About Direction

Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives.

Have you paused to consider that there is no way out? Each way out of one situation necessarily being the way into another situation.

I'll follow, if you give the sign.

Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it.

While the world may be large, complex, and hard, and unfair; it is also knowable. It can be understood. Once understood, it can be directed, controlled, and improved.

Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause—that it must be lived forward.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

?u kalabal???n içine gözlerim kapal? olarak kar??sam bir kuvvet beni muhakkak hiç ?a??rtmadan do?ru ona götürecektir.

Dün ak?amdan beri ne Hamdi, ne de ben hakikatte de?i?mi? de?ildik; neysek gene oyduk; buna ra?men onun bana dair, benim ona dair ö?rendi?imiz baz? ?eyler, küçük ve teferruata ait ?eyler bizi ayr? istikametlere al?p götürmü?lerdi...

You see, Jarret?" she said softly. "It can't work. We want different things. You want to follow the wind where it leads, and I want to dig my roots deep. You're a river, and I'm a tree. The tree can never follow the river, and the river can never stay with the tree.

Whatever happens naturally is always right, there is no question about it. It is just that your short-term goals and objectives may not be in tune with what is happening, so you struggle with it. But in the real sense, it cannot be wrong. It always moves in the right direction because Nature does not decide things with thoughts and emotion. It just decides things as per your tendencies. This is not a thought. With thought, you can always make a mistake

What then is the way out? The way out is a very simple change in direction. You just need to see that the source and basis of your experience is within you.

Why put the head towards the north? Traditionally, in India, they tell you not to sleep with your head to the north. This is valid only when you are in the northern hemisphere. If you go to the southern hemisphere, say Australia, you should not put your head towards the south.

the guru is not the destination but the road map.

I read aimlessly, until I learned to read selectively, with a purpose.

No one will know who we are... until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!

I'll explain it this way, sir. If some men are in a car, driving with a destination in mind, and you know they are going the wrong way, but they are convinced they are going the right way, then you get into the car with them, and ride with them, talking-and finally when they see they are on the wrong road, not getting where they were intending, then you tell them, and they will listen to you then, what road to take.

I was a zombie then—like all Muslims—I was hypnotized, pointed in a certain direction and told to march.

Wer nicht weiß, was die Welt ist, der weiß auch nicht, wo er lebt. Wer aber den Zweck ihres Daseins nicht kennt, der weiß weder, wer er selbst, noch was die Welt ist. Wem aber eins von diesen Stücken fehlt, der kann auch wohl seine eigene Bestimmung nicht angeben. In welchem Lichte erscheint dir nun ein Mensch, welcher um den lauten Beifall derer buhlt, die nicht wissen, wo, noch wer sie selbst sind?

It turns out that we each have our own built-in GPS that leads us toward happiness in the form of an expansion/contraction feedback system. If you feel more expanded, you're going in the right direction; if you feel contracted, it's time for a course correction.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time—even when hard at work.

Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions. But make sure you guard against the other kind of confusion. People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time—even when hard at work.

Let no act be done without a purpose

If you don't have a consistent goal in life, you can't live it in a consistent way.