Quotes About Direction

...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom

I choose to see my life moving in different directions, all of them equally good. Some things are even better now than the way they were in my youth.

It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.

If one can create a purposeful, meaningful life then there's no room for drugs or alcohol. It's not on the list anymore.

A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.

I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like, I have all this passion that wants to explode, but I don't know where to aim it yet.

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.

Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

Arm there," she said. "Other arm, idiot. Now hand there...okay, ready? We're going to start with your left foot. On three. One. Two... What the devil is he doing here?

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

And when there's no point to something, the best idea is not to do it.

Ik ben blij dat de Wolfswind nog in de scheepswerf ligt,' zei hij uiteindelijk. 'Hij vaart weer recht op mijn vaste ligplaats af.

Don't try to aim down the arrow shaft," he told her. "You have to sense where the arrow will go.

We're not big on that sort of thing. We wait for our leader to point to an enemy and say, 'Go whack him.

A goal, in itself, is an empty thing; all the virtue lies in the moving toward the goal.

Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently.

M. Gandhi is reported to have said: "There go my people. I must find out where they are going, so I can lead them."[a.]

how important speed in scene-changes and economy of superfluous decoration was in mounting Shakespeare's plays to their best advantage,

Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ...

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via , as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.

Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the most blessed, the writer, of all people, replaces that ordering principle. Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that, while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.

Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.