Quotes About Direction

What you aim at, determines what you see.

No podemos navegar sin un objetivo al que dirigirnos y, mientras estemos en este mundo, tenemos que seguir navegando.

Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with (and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse).

We need to talk about the nature of the present and our plans for the future, so we know where we are, where we are going, and why we are going there.

Attend to the day, but aim at the highest good.

You need to know where you are, so you can start to chart your course. You need to know who you are, so that you understand your armament and bolster yourself in respect to your limitations. You need to know where you are going, so that you can limit the extent of chaos in your life, restructure order, and bring the divine force of Hope to bear on the world.

Quien tiene un porqué para vivir encontrará casi siempre el cómo».

An aim defines progress and makes such progress exciting. An aim reduces anxiety, because if you have no aim everything can mean anything or nothing, and neither of those two options makes for a tranquil spirit.

Once having understood Hell, researched it, so to speak—particularly your own individual Hell—you could decide against going there or creating that. You could aim elsewhere.

Un objetivo reduce la ansiedad porque, si no tienes ninguno, todo puede significar cualquier cosa o nada en absoluto y ninguna de estas dos opciones permite a un espíritu estar tranquilo. Así

we don't experience any positive emotion unless we have an aim, and we can see ourselves progressing toward that aim

Why remain vague when it makes life stagnant

No purpose? Then, no positive emotion, as most of what drives us forward with hope intact is the experience of approaching something we deeply need and want. And worse, when we are without purpose: chronic, overwhelming anxiety, as focused purpose constrains what is otherwise likely to be the intolerable chaos of unexploited possibility and too much choice.

If you make what you want clear and commit yourself to its pursuit, you may fail. But if you do not make what you want clear, then you will certainly fail.

Sometimes all that learning, impossible without the failure, leads you to see that aiming your ambition in a different direction would be better (not because it is easier; not because you have given up; not because you are avoiding—but because you have learned through the vicissitudes of your experience that what you seek is not to be found where you were looking, or is simply not attainable in the manner by which you chose to pursue it).

You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.

Of course, there must be vision, beyond discipline; beyond dogma. A tool still needs a purpose.

You have a direction, but it might be wrong. You have a plan, but it might be ill-formed. You may have been led astray by your own ignorance—and, worse, by your own unrevealed corruption. You must make friends, therefore, with what you don't know, instead of what you know.

An idea has an aim. It wants something. It posits a value structure. An idea believes that what it is aiming for is better than what it has now.

set your house in order

The sense of meaning is an indicator that you are on that path.

You cannot aim yourself at anything if you are completely undisciplined and untutored. You will not know what to target, and you won't fly straight, even if you somehow get your aim right. And then you will conclude, "There is nothing to aim for." And then you will be lost.

Don't underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being.

people need ordering principles,