Quotes About Direction

Energy follows attention. Wherever you place your attention, that is where the energy of the system will go. "Energy follows attention" means that we need to shift our attention from what we are trying to avoid to what we want to bring into reality.

Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

The success of Woodrow Wilson's campaign for the presidential nomination and the management and direction of his race for President were in very considerable degree the work of an able school of Southern progressive politicians. Likewise the striking success of the progressive reforms of Wilson's first administration owed much of their vigor to the work of Southern cabinet members

And, if there's one thing I've learned about life, it's that if you just put one foot on the road you'd like to travel, pretty soon you find yourself arriving there.

I didn't know what to do next. Doing something is always the best way to think

what am I to do here?

I have observed that a life directed to an aim is in general better, richer, and healthier than an aimless one, and that it is better to go forwards with the stream of time than backwards against it.

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I pulled a U-ey on Main." "Let me get this straight. You pulled an illegal

four stoplights

You're a Boy Scout?" "Well, I was until I got kicked out." "What did you get kicked out for?" "I kept getting lost." "Huh?" "You know, on hikes. We went on all these hikes, and I kept going in the wrong direction or getting left behind or--" He shrugged. "You said I was a goofup, Marla. So you know." She nodded. "Well, try not to get us lost on the way to the library.

You're a Boy Scout?" "Well, I was until I got kicked out." "What did you get kicked out for?" "I kept getting lost.

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

To have a mission is to have a unifying focus for your career.

If you spend too much time focusing on whether or not you've found your true calling, the question will be rendered moot when you find yourself out of work.

Identifying what matters most in your life,

When it comes to creating work you love, following your passion is not particularly useful advice.

something more fundamental to human flourishing: the sense of meaning that comes from acting with intention.

Telling someone to "follow their passion" is not just an act of innocent optimism, but potentially the foundation for a career riddled with confusion and angst.

Overall, Pardis's most important commitment was to patience. She didn't try to force a direction for her working life, but instead built up her career capital and kept her eyes open for the interesting directions she knew this process would uncover.

RULE #1 Don't Follow Your Passion

intersection of Broadway and Houston Street. Here, it was once sagely remarked, you could fire a shotgun in any direction without hitting an honest man;

Where You Go Hereafter Depends upon What You Go After Here

Vision is seeing down the road ahead, the road called "what God has given me to do." Image is how you want the world to see you.