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Quotes About Direction

If you turn to the right, you will marry, if to the left, you will be killed." A true philosopher never chooses the middle course; he needs no riches, he does not know what to do with money. But whether he turns to the right or to the left, nothing pleasant awaits him.
~ Lev Shestov
We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.
~ lewis c s v
Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.
~ lewis c s vi
"Where shall I begin, please, your Majesty?" he asked. "Begin at the beginning," the King said, gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
~ Lewis Carroll
Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Alice: I don't much care where. The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go. Alice: ...So long as I get somewhere. The Cheshire Cat: Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.
~ Lewis Carroll
Begin at the beginning… and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
~ Lewis Carroll
Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked. 'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat. 'I don't know,' Alice answered. 'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.
~ Lewis Carroll
Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
~ Lewis Carroll
Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
~ Lewis Carroll
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.
~ Lewis Carroll
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where -' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat. '- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation. 'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.
~ Lewis Carroll
It is the system itself that, once set up, gives orders.
~ Lewis Mumford
The toughest thing about performing here is, where do you go from here? Next week, I'm at the Fort Lauderdale Performing Arts Center.
~ Lewis Niles Black
I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.
~ Ray Harryhausen
The world is in your hands, now use it.
~ Phil Collins
Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
~ James Allen
The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
~ Victor Cousin
While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
~ Herbie Hancock
Tension can be useful, exciting, flirtatious, strength-building, or destructive. Put yourself in charge of how you direct it.
~ Tara Stiles
I really hate looking back. think it's useless. The only way is forward.
~ Boyan Slat
Everything a director does must help the story and the performances. Otherwise, it is useless.
~ William Wyler
If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.
~ Jesse James Garrett
You may be trying to drive in a particular direction that people don't necessarily understand at first. In our case, we knew the users we had in mind for this product. So in the early days, we looked at our customers, really just testers at that point, and we paid extra attention to the teams we knew should be using Slack successfully.
~ Stewart Butterfield