Quotes About Direction

If you want Neil Gaiman I could draw you a map.

The doorman leaned into my shoulder and said, A lot of young people don't know what they really want.

I say, no. You've used me enough. If you don't cooperate, we'll go after Marla. I say, lead the way.

An airplane is just so many rows of people sitting and all going in the same direction a long ways off the ground. Going to New York's a lot the way I imagine going to Heaven would be.

If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't.

Si no sabes lo que quieres, terminas teniendo un montón de cosas que no necesitas.

If you don't know what you want," the doorman said," you end up with a lot you don't.

Every direction I could see to go was just a different nightmare.

Follow the right wall. Right meaning the direction—pick the wall to the right of you and keep following it, and if it dead-ends, you stay on the right and turn around. Ultimately in this way, a maze would stretch out like a line—or was it a circle?—and you would find your way to its end.

Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.

An inchoate mass of ambition, Julius knew that he had soon, soon to find something to be ambitious for; otherwise, he risked terminal resentment, from which there was no return.

An inchoate ball of ambition, Julius knew that he had soon, soon, to find something to be ambitious for; otherwise he risked terminal resentment, from which there was no return.

The first step is making sure you, as the Top, do, in fact, know what the hell you're doing.

But it is a very difficult thing to change the future. The slightest turn of phrase…action and the human soul. The future changes direction based on those things.

For some, their map is even an old calling from God that they can't let go of. When you learn new facts about the world and new insight into how God is moving, you must be willing to hear a new calling from God and let Him give you a new map.

On the one hand, if you have a strategy that really is working, you need to deliberately focus to keep everyone working together in the right direction. At the same time, however, that focus can easily cause you to dismiss as a distraction what could actually turn out to be the next big thing.

You'll see that without theory, we're at sea without a sextant.

These three parts—likeness, commitment, and metrics—comprise a company's purpose. Companies that aspire to positive impact must never leave their purpose to chance. Worthy purposes rarely emerge inadvertently; the world is too full of mirage, paradox, and uncertainty to leave this to fate. Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

As you're living your life from day to day, how do you make sure you're heading in the right direction? Watch where your resources flow. If they're not supporting the strategy you've decided upon, then you're not implementing that strategy at all.

how you allocate your own resources can make your life turn out to be exactly as you hope or very different from what you intend.

He'd followed in the footsteps of a man who knew the way.

Sunflowers know the secret of life is to follow the sun.

If you reach a crossroads and your destination is to the left and by mistake you turn right, the further you travel along the wrong road the further you will move away from your destination. It is not easy to turn back, to change your mind. Sometimes, you have to in order to survive.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.