Quotes About Direction

There's no longevity in managing - and not much sense, either.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

Learn to drive? Never, said Quentin. My mission in life is to be a passenger.

Estoy aquí para limpiar! -le gritó Sophie. -Entonces vaya encontrándole otro sentido a su vida. -dijo Howl.

Our days flowed around well-charted, often traveled courses, and yet, the underlying sense of falling out of time, out of the trajectory of one's life, not by choice, but by subtraction, was frequent and disquieting. Then I grieved for him, for the lost and previous Paul. He grieved for that man too. Both our griefs were mainly private, internal, unuttered. Return was impossible, and there was only one direction open ; and so we kept our compass pointed forward. [p. 286]

There's no way that can be the river, Rhiow said. Rhi, the ceiling of Grand Central-- Saash said. It's backward, Rhiow snapped, thank you very much, I know all about it. Is it? Saash said. Which direction are you coming at it from? Rhiow closed her mouth and thought about that.

The person who knows 'how' will always have a job. The person who knows 'why' will always be his boss.

Rebuilt in Victorian times, it retained the modesty of its medieval origins. Small and neat, its spire indicated the direction of heaven without trying to pierce a hole in it.

Tributaries A river on a map is a simple thing. Our river starts at Trewsbury Mead, and follows a course of some two hundred and thirty-six miles to reach the sea at Shoeburyness. But anyone who takes the trouble to follow its route, whether by boat or on foot, cannot help being aware that, furlong by furlong, singleness of direction is not its most obvious feature. En route the river does not seem particularly intent on reaching its destination. Instead it winds its way

The Thames that goes north, south, east, and west, to finally go east, that seeps to one side and the other as it moves forward, that goes slow as it goes fast, that evaporates into the sky whilst meandering to the sea, is more about motion than about beginnings. If it has a beginning, it is located in a dark inaccessible place. Better study where it goes than where it comes from.

Què havia de fer de tota aquella llibertat?

When there is no light to see by, any drunk can walk in a straight line!

Una mente fatigada tiende a tomar derroteros infructuosos; no hay nada que una buena noche de sueño no pueda reparar.

Beach's conspicuous intelligence would take him far if only he would stir himself to choose a direction

Maybe what has to happen is that the individual must allow himself to be swept along, must find himself in the stream of no-choice, the single direction. This is what makes things inevitable. You use the restrictions and penalties they invent to make yourself stronger. History means to merge. The purpose of history is to climb out of your own skin.

But you have to direct yourself out of this thing, not into it. Don't fold up.

The TV was a rage-making machine, working at him all the time, giving him direction and scope, enlarging him in a sense, filling him with a world rage, a great stalking soreness and rancour.

How could there be a north below a south? Is this what I found confusing?

Everything that has happened drives me in that direction, theoretically. But I don't feel reduced by my abstinence, as I did in the past. The craving is gone and maybe this is what reduces me. •

What if it blows this way?" "It won't." "Just this one time." "It won't. Why should it?" He paused a beat and said in a flat tone, "They just closed part of the interstate." "They would want to do that, of course." "Why?" "They just would. A sensible precaution. A way to facilitate movement of service vehicles and such. Any number of reasons that have nothing to do with wind or wind direction.

We have to boil our water," Steffie said. "Why?" "It said on the radio." "They're always saying boil your water," Babette said. "It's the new thing, like turn your wheel in the direction of the skid. Here comes Wilder now. I guess we can eat.

Well, what shall I do next? What is the next thing demanded of me by history?

agility: the ability to quickly change direction while traveling at a high speed.

This mess calls for leadership in the worst way.