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Quotes About Direction

He that rules by mind is like the north star, steady in his seat, whilst the stars all bend to him.
~ Confucius
It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.
~ Confucius
15.30 The Master said, "Having gone astray, to fail to get right back on track is to stray indeed.
~ Confucius
There is nothing more helpful than shouted instructions, particularly incomprehensible ones. I
~ Connie Willis
If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.
~ Cormac McCarthy
For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.
~ Cormac McCarthy
In what direction did lost men veer?
~ Cormac McCarthy
But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry (of life) will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge of the world that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Tell us where the world went.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Se le regole che hai seguito ti hanno portato fino a questo punto, a che servono quelle regole?
~ Cormac McCarthy
With full dark he came forth, a solitary traveler going south. He walked all night.
~ Cormac McCarthy
This the day to shape the days upon.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The boy stood up and got his broom and put it over his shoulder. He looked at his father. What are our long term goals? he said. What? Our long term goals. Where did you hear that? I dont know. No, where did you? You said it. When? A long time ago. What was the answer? I dont know. Well. I dont either. Come on. It's getting dark.
~ Cormac McCarthy
No todo el mundo necesita tener una razón para ir a alguna parte.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He wondered where the blind man was going and did he know how the road ended. Someone should tell a blind man before setting him out that way.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Do reflections also travel at the speed of light? What does your buddy Albert think? When the light hits the glass and starts back in the opposite direction doesnt it have to come to a full stop first? And so everything is supposed to hang on the speed of light but nobody wants to talk about the speed of dark. What's
~ Cormac McCarthy
Wherever you debark was the train's destination all along.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I love her to this day. Love of her led me to leave her. But some other kind of love, whose dimensions were beyond both description and comprehension, was fueling my feelings and moving me in directions that I hadn't anticipated. I had found love. I had lost love. Love of my calling was pushing me on.
~ Cornel West
That was the trouble with writing, there were such an infinite number of turns the story could take. How were you to know which one was right?
~ Cornelia Funke
Em nossas escolhas encontra-se o nosso destino.
~ Cornelia Funke
Start at the beginning," he said. "Move one step in the direction of your goal. Remember that you can change direction to maneuver around obstacles. You don't need a plan, you need a vector.
~ Cory Doctorow
A sense of purpose is a wonderful tonic for anxiety.
~ Cory Doctorow
If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?—yea, dancing as well as playing, and several other Judaic actions? or, how can we decline a whole rabble of church-officers, necessary to be introduced for instrumental musick, whereof our Lord Jesus Christ hath left us no manner of direction?
~ Cotton Mather