Quotes About Direction

What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?

It was true. After our divorce, I'd ended up in a slight relationship with my last research assistant, Aurelia Feinstein, age 34-though let me state for the record it was not as hot as it sounded. Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure little red entry on Hungarian poetry. It was dead silent, no one gave me any dierection, and nothing was where it was supposed to be.

Every day I need to hear that voice behind me saying: 'This is the way; walk in it' (Isa. 30:21)

God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.

In life, you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.

But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do.

She is off the heart's map and her compass is spinning.

But the long tunnels of art through which I walked in Rome that day had no ragged edges, cowardly colors, or shades of pastel that didn't know what to do with themselves. The wisdom, perfection, and beauty of the colors and forms I passed were more than enough, in their collectivity, to hint at the principles which govern the hereafter, whatever that may be. Indeed, even a detail of one painting can offer solid direction in this regard if one knows how to look

Prepositions are to language as aim is to a gun.

leadership, and particularly turnaround leadership, is about defining a dream and tethering all aspects of the organization to it.

There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what s/he is told to do. And the other is the person who does no more than s/he is told to do. - Andrew Carnegie

Look upstream. Just simply turn around; have you no will?

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing.

You're not bad ... you're just lost. I know exactly where I am. That doesn't mean you're not lost.

If you wanna get there, just follow the sound of the drums. Things seem to just sway and move constantly.

Bedways is rightways now, so best we go homeways.

It was, however, in keeping with the way my uncle conducted his life that he should reach his destination without knowing the name of the goal.

It was that prolonged, flat, cheerless week that follows Christmas. My own existence seemed infinitely stagnant, relieved only by work on another book. Those interminable latter days of the dying year create an interval, as it were, of moral suspension: one form of life already passed away before another has had time to assert some new, endemic characteristic. Imminent change of direction is for some reason often foreshadowed by such colourless patches of time.

This ideal conception?that one should have an aim in life?had, indeed, only too often occurred to me as an unsolved problem; but I was still far from deciding what form my endeavours should ultimately take.

On the death of Mr Deacon) The milestones provided by him had now come suddenly to an end. The road stretched forward still.

It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." —ANTHONY ROBBINS

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

If you don't make decisions about how you're going to live, then you've already made a decision, haven't you? You're making a decision to be directed by the environment instead of shaping your own destiny.