Quotes About Direction

you'll learn the critical difference between the paralyzing restrictions of choice and the freeing concept of focus.

As the American historian John Lewis Gaddis put it, it is like looking in a rearview mirror: if you only look back, you will land in the ditch, but it helps to know where you have come from and who else is on the road.

Halte du ein Ende des Fadens, mit dem anderen in der Hand wandere ich durch die Welt. Und falls ich mich verlaufe, meine Mama, ziehe.

I fought tenaciously against what seemed to be my destiny; I struggled against my natural reaction with all my strength, because it was killing my dreams and forcing me to go in the wrong direction.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

I envy the trees that grow at crossroads. They are never forced to decide which way to go...

Walking bores me. I mean, we have to have a goal.

Up the well known creek

Du siehst einfach nur nicht richtig, wohin du gehst. Du lässt dich ablenken, und dann stolperst du ueber jedes noch so kleine Hindernis. Du bist weltfremd... So einfach ist das oder so komplexiert. Wie man es nimmt... Konzentriere dich beim Gehen darauf, was du tust.

God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down into it.

People are a chain of souls, sometimes so entangled, that they forget who, where they have to go, to be home.

Seguir las pasiones sin otros puntos de referencia conduce a la tragedia vital.

Pondus meum amor meus": mi amor es mi peso, decía san Agustín, refiriéndose, no al hecho evidente de que a veces amar sea costoso, sino a que el amor que llevamos en el corazón es lo que nos mueve, lo que nos lleva a todas partes. "Eo feror, quocumque feror", allí donde voy, es él que me lleva. Pensemos, cada una y cada uno, ¿cuál es el amor que me lleva a todas partes?»[5]. Poco

Ante cualquier decisión de cierta importancia que tengamos que tomar, hemos de preguntarnos: ¿es coherente con el estilo de vida evangélico que deseo encarnar?; esta elección, ¿me acerca o me aleja de mi fin último? Porque lo decisivo es llegar a la meta, no experimentar todas las posibilidades que se le presentan a cualquier persona.

Instead of saying, What's the point? ask yourself, What's the next right move?

When you're stuck in a paralyzing thought loop of indecision, stop thinking and start doing. Make a move, no matter how tiny.

Discovering what you really want saves you endless confusion and wasted energy. Stuart Wilde

Ambiguity is the enemy of accomplishment.

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Either we are running 'from' what we fear, or running 'to' what we fear. The former is a choice driven by fear, the latter is an action inspired by it.

I often ask to what place I am running, for if I am unable to identify that place it is likely that I am running in a circle of the most circular sort.

Is the goal I've set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?

But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction...

He could still escape—the fear was in front of him, and all he had to do was wrench free and run in the other direction. But he kept walking forward, straight into its embrace.