Quotes About Direction

I looked at my hands. I was holding onto the steering wheel so tightly, all my knuckles where shiny points of white, and my blinker was on, CLICK-click CLICK-click CLICK-click, so certain, so plain, so clear, and yet for all its mechanical conviction, blinking me in the wrong direction.

How then do you fly from that path?

leaving me with absolutely no sound way to determine where the hell I'm going, though right now going to hell seems like a pretty sound bet.

There's only one choice and the brave make it. Fly from the path.

When it came down to it, one of them called the shots. The other did what he was told. The question is, what if the other is a lot more than one?

Nel corso degli anni ho visto tanti giovani che credono di correre gli uni contro gli altri. Non è così. È verso di me che corrono.

Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.

Fully occupied by the process of achieving innumerable goals, we lose the ability to determine which goals really matter, and why.

Maybe love will be like driving. When people move—when they travel—they look where they've come from, not where they're going.

Beneath the clock was an enormous arrow, on which was printed: Change Here For Eastern Trains. But time had no arrow, not here.

Points of a journey do not matter when the journey has no destination, only an end.

There are not many road signs in Russia, you know.' He laughed. 'If you don't know where the road goes, you shouldn't be on it.'" — Arkady Renko from Gorky Park

Every questioning is a seeking. Every seeking takes its direction beforehand from what is sought. Questioning is a knowing search for beings in their thatness and whatness.

Ultimately, a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

If we look at our history with honesty and clarity we will be forced to admit that our federal form of government has been, from the day of its birth, weakened in integrity, confused and confounded in its direction, by the unresolved race question. It is as if a political thalidomide drug taken during pregnancy caused the birth of a crippled nation.

To attempt radical reform without adequate organization is like trying to sail a boat without a rudder.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Grief can make you question your goals and purpose. How you want to spend your life.

I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy.

She had never believed in fate. She still did not. It would be nonsense of freedom of will and choice, and it was through such freedom that we worked our way through life and learned what we needed to learn. But sometimes, it seemed to her, there was something, some sign, to nudge one along in a certain direction. What one chose to do with that nudge was up to that person.

Do you believe that sometimes life points out a way for us to follow even if it does not force us into taking that particular path?

driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but

vestigia nulla retrorsum. Never look rearwards, but always to our glorious goal.

leader in the Times