Quotes About Direction

And one of the values is the way being lost can lead you to see what you want to find. It helps you sense where you want to be found. Or who you want to be found by.

Up or down. We're you in an up or down?

You and I are walking in the snow. Why are you walking backwards? I ask. You point in the direction we came from. So they'll think that's where I'm going. You point to where we're going. And that's where I'm from.

Maybe this is what alone really is—finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else. I

Seconds pass with every door. Minutes pass with every street. Elijah never realizes that he's lost, so he has no trouble finding his way back.

Insight, n.: How telling that there isn't anything called "outsight," as if language itself knows the direction that wisdom must come from. — David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011)

Instead of racing away from that terrible event," Alfred continued, "I think maybe it's time to start running toward something.

plot is not the story, but an Ariadne's thread you follow through a labyrinth of scenes.

Nixon wanted view and advice brought to him through intermediaries. He wanted information filtered as it came to him – and he wanted his filters to filter his will back to those whom he must direct.

If we don't take a prideful stance about our opinions, then we are at liberty to change them. How often have we gotten stuck in performing something we really didn't want to do, because we had foolishly taken a prideful stance on an opinion! Very often we would like to have changed our mind or the direction in which we were going, but we got ourselves boxed in by having taken a prideful position.

Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder I turned to look in the direction of Hugh's loft. 'You will be mine,' I commanded.

Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if breathing from the atmosphere of possibility itself. A life's work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.

There's no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens.

Fate isn't one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same stubborn fate.

I had in my life looked at a number of beautiful starry nights, where with just two colours and the simplest of styles nature draws the grandest of pictures, and I felt the feelings of wonder and smallness that we all feel, and I got a clear sense of direction from the spectacle, most definitely, but I mean that in a spiritual sense, not in a geographic one.

The great minds of the century. So absolutely convinced they're on the road to somewhere.

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

When you come to a fork in the road take it

We're lost, but we're making good time.

Sometimes good ideas spring from having a sense of where you want to go, of having a vision of the next level of products.

Sometimes I wonder if people don't want freedom as much as they want meaning.

Sometimes I wonder if people don't want freedom as much as they want meaning

Shut off your wind, Jack! And you, too, Blaze! I didn't want you fellows to come here. But as you would come, you've got to shut up. This is my business.