Quotes About Direction

The modern world may not know how to phrase the question, but it wants its own realistic recipe for Purpose. Competition has done us a lot of good in the last half-century, but one question remains inadequately addressed: "What are we competing for?

You'll never decide what you want until you've decided who you are.

In this way he used her as the North Star on a journey where you always want to go south. It was helpful, aligning himself in this way. It gave him something to tune to, like a violin to a piano.

Follow the words, not the person.

The reason we don't reach our goals is three-fold: We're going after something we don't really want. That's why sometimes, we have to perform Goal Replacement Surgery. Three kinds of goals require Goal Replacement Surgery: 1. Impossible goals. 2. Someone else's goals. 3. Goals you don't really want anymore.

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

I asked father whether they led. 'Like everything else in Cairo' he said, 'Round and round in circles, to everywhere and nowhere.

Financial discipline demands that you have a budget. Control your money. Do not let money control you. Discipline yourself to make sure that the flow of your money is gong in the right direction at all times.

Go wherever God says and you will be a success. Do whatever He tells you to do and you will win. Those two simple sentences sum up the entire definition for success.

But now remember, my dear. Don't try so hard. You'll see. In life you move toward the things you like and away from what you don't," Gretchen said. "It's that easy?" I asked her. Her arm was so skinny and fragile, but I could feel her weight like determination. "Yes, it's that easy," she said. Then she laughed. "The hard part is to just keep moving.

We make destiny with every turn, every choice.

There is one quality more important than "know-how" and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it. This is "know-what" by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

Learning, like more primitive forms of feedback, is a process which reads differently forward and backward in time. The whole conception of the apparently purposive organism, whether it is mechanical, biological, or social, is that of an arrow with a particular direction in the stream of time rather than that of a line segment facing both ways which we may regard as going in either direction.

She doesn't realize it, but she steers others in a good direction.

Having dreams and goals helps guide people in the right direction. It helps them build great character and it eventually helps them succeed in their lives.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

Whenever we read anything, we find our attention moving in two directions at once. One direction is outward or centrifugal, in which we keep going outside our reading, from the individual words to the things they mean, or, in practice, to our memory of the conventional association between them. The other direction is inward or centripetal, in which we try to develop from the words a sense of the larger verbal pattern they make.

Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.

There are no wrong roads to anywhere.

De la "eu sunt" porne?te drumul r?ului în jos ?i cel al binelui în sus.

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

Who had brought him this way? Whose was the unseen hand, the unseen leash?

?nsan kald?r?m?n ortas?nda karars?z durursa, ya ate? isterler ya da adres sorarlar. Ba?ka bir ?ey sormazlar.

When vision fails Direction is lost. When direction is lost Purpose may be forgotten. When purpose is forgotten Emotion rules alone. When emotion rules alone, Destruction…destruction.