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Quotes About Direction

I fear for your future, Kira,' said Victor. 'It's time to get reconciled to life. You won't get far with those ideas of yours.' 'That,' said Kira, 'depends on what direction I want to go.
~ Ayn Rand
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, like a journey...
~ Ayn Rand
Wasn't it evil to wish without moving—or to move without aim?
~ Ayn Rand
A man's method of using his consciousness determines his method of survival. The three contestants are Attila, the Witch Doctor and the Producer—or the man of force, the man of feelings, the man of reason—or the brute, the mystic, the thinker. The rest of mankind calls it expedient to be tossed by the current of events from one of those roles to another, not choosing to identify the fact that those three are the source which determines the current's direction.
~ Ayn Rand
ella pregunto: -Francisco, ¿Cuál es el tipo más depravado que existe?. -El hombre que carece de propósitos.
~ Ayn Rand
Un tren tiene los dos grandes atributos de la vida, pensó, movimiento y propósito;
~ Ayn Rand
You'll be one of us, so long as you'll remain in love with your rails and your engines—and they'll lead you back to us, no matter how many times you lose your way. The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.
~ Ayn Rand
What I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim
~ Barack Obama
Look. You can't plan out your life. What you have to do is first discover your passion—what you really care about.
~ Barack Obama
This is it, I'd say to them finally. The point of it all. To have that rare chance, reserved for very few, to bend history in a better direction.
~ Barack Obama
Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
~ Barack Obama
To have that rare chance, reserved for very few, to bend history in a better direction.
~ Barack Obama
I would be able to articulate a vision and set a direction for the country; promote a healthy organizational culture and establish clear lines of responsibility and measures of accountability. I would be the one who made the final decisions on issues that rose to my attention and who explained those decisions to
~ Barack Obama
Michelle shook her head and looked out the window. We both knew what I was asking for. Another disruption. Another gamble. Another step in the direction of something I wanted and she truly didn't. "This is it, Barack," Michelle said. "One last time. But don't expect me to do any campaigning. In fact, you shouldn't even count on my vote.
~ Barack Obama
It felt sometimes as if I'd been caught in a tide, carried along by the current of other people's expectations before I'd clearly defined my own.
~ Barack Obama
It was my compass; a direction I could point myself in every day and say this is who I am now, this is what I do. The store is your compass.
~ Barbara Davis
He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
What keeps you going isn't just some fine destination but the road you're on and the fact you know how to drive.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Where does the road to ruin start? That's the point of getting all this down, I'm told. To get the handle on some choice you made. Or was made for you.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
In Lee County they say you have to look hard for a face you've not seen before, which surely was true for Mom, who'd directed anybody that could walk to where the Solo cups are kept on Aisle 19.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Boys aren't a thing but just little men still learning what to aim at.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact same way they wish for it to be altered.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
My first question: Is Knoxville near the ocean. Answer: Wrong direction.
~ Barbara Kingsolver