Quotes About Direction

Addressed to the entire British fleet,

the first said simply: 'General chase, south-east.' The second said: 'Prepare for battle.

The wind was coming mostly from the south. Villeneuve gave the order to sail at 6 a.m.

The whole boat had to be pointed towards the target.

You are the bows from which your children As living arrows are sent forth. —KHALIL GIBRAN, Lebanese-American poet

puesto que de ese modo puede conseguir su manumisión, mientras que mendigar envilece el espíritu. Por fin, tras indagar varias veces la dirección, logramos encontrar el camino que conducía a la puerta de Adad.

How can an intelligent person, committed to choosing a new career path, decide exactly which direction to pursue?

I'm often called obsessive. I don't think I am ... but I agree that when I decide to go in one direction I really go in that direction.

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

Do you like what you're doing/would you do it some more/or will you stop once and wonder what you're doing it for?

By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end to being lost. You can spend your entire life simply falling in that direction. It isn't a station you reach but just the general state of going down. Once you make it back, if you make it back, you will stand before your long-lost friends but in some essential way they will no longer know you.

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.

Abrahamic tradition under nihilistic direction might not be what anyone wants, but it's what we have. Accelerating iconoclasm turns the world onto The Nothing. Nietzsche was right to interpret the only global history as this. There is no way out of it because it is itself the ultimate outside.

She tries to search her heart, but the map is old and the compass is faulty.

Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.

Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.

The pure reactionary is not a dreamer of abolished pasts, but a hunter of sacred shades on the eternal hills... The reactionary does not aspire to turn back, but rather to change direction. The past that he admires is not a goal but an exemplification of his dreams.

Ich wandle in der Finsternis. Doch mich leitet der Duft des Ginsters.

The reactionary does not aspire to turn back, but rather to change direction.

So this is one of those times when life is just handing you something, telling you what to do, which way to go. So enjoy it. It'll be fun. I guarantee. I can't guarantee we'll find the goddamn thing, but it'll be interesting. Then if we do find it - if we do- the payoff's huge.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

Life is like a long ride to nowhere in particular.

There's nothin like a trail of ßlooÐ to finÐ your way ßack home

Leaders do not simply invent a Purpose; they discover it, while at the same time developing a strategy and ensuring that Purpose and strategy support each other.