Quotes About Direction

All people end up somewhere in life, but few end up there on purpose.

Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing

Gun Control: A measure to ensure that guns always point in one direction.

Most important of all, do everything you can to nurture your spiritual intelligence. It is your only genuine source of hope, direction, meaning, and comfort.

Having someplace in mind that you were traveling to was different from not having any place.

If they were afloat on the sea, and blind in the fog — they didn't even know what direction they should turn in. What then did it matter that she knew reading and writing, or that he had been caught out in a plot against his overlord?

Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one's own life.

If you admit a unison, you forfeit all the possibilities of chaos...Love is a direction which excludes all other directions. It is a freedom together, if you like.

But no, he would not give in. Turning sharply, he walked towards the city's gold phosphorescence. His fists were shut, his mouth set fast. He would not take that direction, to the darkness, to follow her. He walked towards the faintly humming, glowing town, quickly. THE END

He's got _go_, anyhow.' Certainly, he's got go,' said Gudrun. 'In fact I've never seen a man that showed signs of so much. The unfortunate thing is, where does his _go_ go to, what becomes of it?

Clarifying the Way means that we determine the point we should aim at throughout our lives, based on the self that is only the self and life that is only life. This is the sole great matter, and this is what completing the sole great matter of one's life means. True practice begins at this point.

Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

In my new freedom I remember thinking: If one knows what he wants to do, others will not only not stand in the way but will lend a hand from simple curiosity and amazement.

At the end of an age, the denizens of the age still profess to believe that they can understand themselves by the theory of the age, yet they behave as if they did not believe it. The surest sign that an age is coming to an end is the paradoxical movement of the most sensitive souls of the age, the artists and writers first, then the youth, in a direction exactly opposite to the direction laid down by the theory of the age.

This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you were going

Speed on my book! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the       imperious waves

Keep your face always toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

Jobs barked at him.

The knack is to get people to follow you, even to places they may not think they can go, by motivating them to share your sense of mission.

You know, Gina, Apple is like a ship," Amelio answered. "That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.

The Pirates Abandon Ship Upon his return from Europe in August 1985, while he was casting about for what to

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do," he said. "That's true for companies, and it's true for products.

Decidere quello che non si deve fare è non meno importante che decidere quello che si deve fare.