Quotes About Direction

Dreams are road signs along the nighttime highway of sleep.

If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived — forwards.

You are fate's shadow or fate's sun, depending on which way you turn.

One may as much miss the Mark, by aiming too high, as too low.

If I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook. If I hit it straight, it's a miracle.

They say "follow your heart," but if your heart is in a million pieces which piece do you follow?

New York's a pretty big town. You might take a wrong turn and get lost." "You know," she'd said sweetly, "you might take a hint and do the same.

Experience, my dear lady, has taught me a sad truth: time flows in one direction only! As the days pass none of us grows younger. Sometimes we postpone glorious schemes only to discover in the end that they never have materialized! Procrastination is the thief of life!

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others," he

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others," he told them.

At the end of the day, effective mission statements balance the possible and the impossible. They give people a clear sense of the direction to profitability and the inspiration to feel they are part of something big and important.

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement it like a hell.

Forget the arduous, intellectualized number crunching and data grinding that gurus say you have to go through to get strategy right. Forget the scenario planning, yearlong studies, and hundred-plus-page reports. They're time-consuming and expensive, and you just don't need them. In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

Los líderes existen, en gran medida, para dar sentido —propósito— a sus equipos; para, de manera incansable, apasionadamente, explicar: «Vamos hacia allí. Por tal y tal motivo. Así es como vamos a llegar. Así es como encajas tú. Y esto es lo que vas a ganar con todo esto».

Wind will blow through any chink it can find, flow around any obstacle in its course. Follow the wind's example and let it guide you into those spaces.

In the desert we say Make haste slowly.

If you can find your North Star," he'd say, "you can find your whole universe.

no one can absolutely control the direction of his life; but each person can certainly influence it. The armchair explorers who complain that they never got their "one lucky shot" were never really infected by the incurable drive to explore. Those who have the bug—go.

But even though there´s no more hope, again there´s no need to harm yourself, despite your feeling as if there´s no ground beneath you and no choice in any direction. But when we do let go, how wonderful. We discover that the darkness is actually full of light.

What did the hat say to the hatrack? You stay here and I'll go on a head.

Wrong decisions, Jakob, are never inevitable. A wise man can always turn back from a precipice.