Quotes About Direction

Kanban system directs each work center when and what to produce but, more importantly, it directs when not to produce. No card—no production.

The waters that fed the Missouri had once flowed northeast into Hudson Bay, not south toward the Gulf of Mexico.

We cannot choose where we come from, but we can choose where we are going, and we can choose the routes we're willing to take to try to get there.

I'm not dragging my tail through that." Primly, with a flip of his long, crossed primary feathers. "You wanted to go this way. We're going this way. And you can carry me.

Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork: even when someone is not ill, when there has been no telegram, they run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.

Sometimes the paths that lead back to places get blocked.

if it doesn't matter what you do, then how do you choose what to do?

Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you've set and followed your priorities.

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.

Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.

To be human is to be lost in the woods.

She was the glow in a darkened theater above a door: EXIT

amanda thought about her addiction to being on the move. about whether she was running away or running toward.

Once every so often—at the very most—I think someone actually chooses something. Otherwise we're following something—we don't even know what it is but we follow it

She came to understand that people had to decide, really, how they were going to live.

cell phone. He gave her more water, told her to drink it slowly, then began leading her back the way they had come; her legs were

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

our passions in constructive directions.

My wind is turned to bitter north, That was so soft a south before.

Het heeft weinig zin te blijven studeren op een plattegrond die je zelf hebt getekend.

Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change the other too; Each different path brings other ends in view

We have been so busy perfecting the means of travel that we have forgotten where we wanted to go.

Salì senza tante cerimonie sul taxi e si sistemò comodamente sul sedile posteriore. Sollevato, chiuse gli occhi. "Dove vuole che andiamo?" chiese Sorjonen. "Avanti".

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.