Quotes About Direction

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fall immediately, they had better aim at something high.

What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment, but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and give unity and direction to our life.

The man who fails because he aims astray, or because he does not aim at all, is to be found everywhere.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.

To govern is to choose.

The needle of our conscience is as good a compass as any.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

Depending on who's directing you, sometime it's heightened or more naturalistic, but generally you're trying to represent something truthful.

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.

The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you're trying to figure it out, and you're really looking in the right direction, everything's going to be all right.

I am just the band leader, and I just keep everything in tune.

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.

Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning over the drums, telling them to tune their guitars, micromanaging.

When you're a manager you always have tunnel vision at certain times.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

In life go straight and turn right.

On a career level, I always advise people to look ahead and be open to changes in direction. That job that seems so good now can easily turn into a nightmare if you do not see the possible corners it can land you in.

It's not trickle down economics. The problem that the president has is that he's rudderless on the economy. I mean, he doesn't quite know what to do. It's a wake-up on Monday and try to figure it out. It takes time to turn a supertanker, so you need to know where you need to go.

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

I launched Little Lights of Mine because I was a young, 23-year-old new mom. I was home at the time and looking for direction. I started the blog as a place to just share everything. It quickly turned into a food-based blog where I would share all of my favorite recipes.

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.