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Quotes About Direction

The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.
~ Augusten Burroughs
And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are a person's most valuable asset. My own instincts have repeatedly guided me against the grain of logic and probability. When I have trusted and followed their direction, they have never been wrong. I don't know how or why. But I know that every significant experience-positive or negative-sharpens them and makes them more accurate.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Regret can power your telescope, changing what you see.
~ Augusten Burroughs
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
~ Ayn Rand
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.
~ Ayn Rand
The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.
~ Ayn Rand
Fransisco, what's the most depraved type of human being? -The man without purpose.
~ Ayn Rand
The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one.
~ Ayn Rand
I don't like the thing that's happening to people, Miss Taggart. I don't know. But I've watched them here for twenty years and I've seen the change. They used to rush through here, and it was wonderful to watch, it was the hurry of men who knew where they were going and were eager to get there. Now they're hurrying because they are afraid. It's not a purpose that drives them, its fear. They're not going anywhere, they're escaping.
~ Ayn Rand
Wasn't it evil to wish without moving- or to move without aim?
~ Ayn Rand
To me there's only one form of human depravity-the man without a purpose.
~ Ayn Rand
Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me.
~ Ayn Rand
It is not proper for man's life to be a circle, she thought, or a string of circles dropping off like zeros behind him—man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum.
~ Ayn Rand
Francisco, what's the most depraved type of human being?" "The man without a purpose.
~ Ayn Rand
You Create A Peak When You Truly Follow Your Sensible Vision. Your Fear Fades And You Become More Peaceful And Successful.
~ Spencer Johnson
The past was at all times within reach, a nearly religious awe aimed in its direction. This was especially true in Egypt, which had a passion for history, and which for two millennia already had kept a written record.
~ Stacy Schiff
Politics views the globe exactly as it did in the preceding centuries (but now translunar space is included)—as a chessboard for contests. But all along, that board has been surreptitiously changing; it is no more a stationary ground, a foundation, but a raft, afloat and splintering under the blows of unseen currents that are carrying it in a direction in which no one has been looking.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
El hombre que no cuenta con ningún objetivo en la vida, tiene que creárselo».
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Solo i pesci morti vanno con la corrente
~ Stefano Benni
You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life.
~ Stella Adler
and it all comes down to this a gospel written in the living an incantation we pass hand to hand soul to soul it's this if you do nothing other than run run in the direction of you
~ Stephanie Greene
It may be safe to walk, but where do you go when all directions wear the same black ashen despair?
~ Stephanie Hemphill
The trees' bare bony fingers point crookedly towards Heaven or Hell or worse than that, towards nowhere.
~ Stephanie Hemphill
All you know is you must change sail to catch it.
~ Stephanie Hemphill