Quotes About Direction

We need to stop shuffling service parts randomly and set our sights on a goal, something we are moving toward in every service element.

Discernment, says Lonsdale, is about the "spiritual interpretation and evaluation of feelings, and particularly with the direction in which we are moved by them.

To paraphrase Merton in his book The Sign of Jonas, all of my training pointed one way, and all of my ideals the other.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. –Steve Jobs

As Edward Albee put it neatly in his play The Zoo Story (1958): What I am going to tell you has something to do with how sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly….

Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.

Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something

It never came down to two roads at all, or if it did, I took the one less traveled by for a driveway, or the entrance to a mall, or it slipped past like a station off the air while I bent down to fiddle with the dial.

And as for those who might have been following me, odds are I lost them long, long ago. Nothing to do but keep on driving as clearly as if I hadn't, flashing my change of lane and exit, in case there's anyone who needs to know.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Down," she ordered. "Shoot anybody that comes into view." "What about you?" "No, don't shoot me." "I mean where are you going?

Eu dirijo. É tudo o que eu faço. Não fico sentado enquanto você planeja a coisa ou a prepara. Você me diz onde começamos, em que direção devemos ir, para onde devemos seguir depois, em que horário. não me meto, não conheço ninguém, não ando armado. Eu dirijo.

Your perspective guides your thoughts, your choices, your trajectory.

still when I lost her I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier

I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier

For political leaders in a democracy are not revolutionaries or leaders of creative thought. The best of them are those who respond wisely to changes and movements already under way. The worst, the least successful, are those who respond badly or not at all, and those who misunderstand the direction of already visible change.

If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it.

power without purpose and without vision was not the same thing as leadership.

Acknowledge when failed policies demand a change in direction.

Regardless of one's impressive title, power without purpose and without vision was not the same thing as leadership.

I'd rather be a failure, like you, than succeed and all that sort of thing. But I'm not saying I'm choosing failure. I mean, one doesn't choose failure, does one? I know what I don't want, but not what I do want.

The crossroads may not be of your own seeking, but at least the road you choose will be your own.

I wish to make my fortune with you.' 'Well, you can forget about that, for a start,' said Francis Crawford. 'And if your place in Paradise has been written, then for God's sake hang on to it. Because we're going in the opposite direction.

All we have to do is follow its track in the sand.' 'What sand?' said Jerott. 'Don't be pessimistic,' said Lymond.