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Quotes About Direction

the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!
~ Johnnetta B. Cole
Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward towards something.
~ Maxwell Maltz
It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man's lordship has cost us too much.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.
~ Richard M. Weaver
Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came.
~ Peter De Vries
Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.
~ Earl Nightingale
God... God...dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I'm at the end of my rope. Show me the way, God...
~ George Bailey
Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted.
~ George Rogers Clark
A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.
~ Jean Shepherd
A man's life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.
~ John Burroughs
Also known as 'Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah,' or in the original Welsh, 'Cwm Rhondda,'" added Sonar Taxlaw.
~ Neal Stephenson
Getting through the intersection involves tracing paths through the parking system, many braided filaments of direction like the Ho Chi Minh trail.
~ Neal Stephenson
The answer was that it was about twenty degrees west of their projected apogee, encircling a large new habitat called Akureyri, and heading generally in the direction of the Cape Verde boneyard that separated the Greenwich segment from the Rio segment. Which meant that it would soon be in the predominantly Ivyn part of the ring.
~ Neal Stephenson
Dinah could spend the rest of her life living by her word, giving everyone a fair shake, and all of that. Rufus would no doubt approve of all those things. But it was not the charge he had given her. He had told her, though not in so many words, to get busy building a future.
~ Neal Stephenson
Now the roads just feed into a parking system -- not a lot, not a ramp, but a system -- and lose their identity. Getting through the intersection involves tracing paths through the parking system, many braided filaments of direction like the Ho Chi Minh trail. CSV-5 has better throughput, but Cal.12 has better pavement. That is typical -- Fairlanes roads emphasize getting you there, for Type A drivers, and Cruiseways emphasize the enjoyment of the ride, for Type B drivers.
~ Neal Stephenson
Everything felt awkward. There was a sense of being on a perfectly good road in a perfectly sound car that was, however, veering into a ditch.
~ Neal Stephenson
That many ignorant people could be dangerous if they got pointed in the wrong direction, and so we've evolved a popular culture that is (a) almost unbelievably infectious, and (b) neuters every person who gets infected by it, by rendering them unwilling to make judgments and incapable of taking stands.
~ Neal Stephenson
No path back home is better than any other path.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Today the earth is populated with billions of people desperately hoping to "get somewhere," but having no idea of where they're going.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
If you are in a group whose consciousness does not reflect your own, and you are unable at this time to effectively alter the group consciousness, it is wise to leave the group, or the group could lead you. It will go where it wants to go, regardless of where you want to go.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Escolhas o caminho que escolheres, não podes deixar de chegar a Casa.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
See, it's just the reverse. Don't be afraid of the choice. Make the choice, then you'll know whether you've made the right one. And if it feels wrong to you, stop, turn around, and go back. And if it feels right to you, keep on going. Isn't that an interesting idea?
~ Neale Donald Walsch
1. Who am I? 2. Where am I? 3. Why am I where I am? 4. What do I intend to do about that?
~ Neale Donald Walsch