Quotes About Direction

There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you're on the wrong wall.

The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?

Where there is a way or a path, it's someone else's way.

Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt: "The Fates lead him who will; him who won't, they drag.

Not all who hesitate are lost.

If there's a way or path, it's someone else's.

old Roman: "The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path.

students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

The direction in which the characters look determines the direction in which they should be read. This alternate or boustrophedon mode of writing also characterises early Greek inscriptions, and since it was not adopted by either Phœnicians, Egyptians, or Assyrians, the question arises whether the Greeks did not learn to write in such a fashion from neighbours who made use of the Hittite script.

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

No one can tell me, Nobody knows, Where the wind comes from, Where the wind goes.

Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin. "Well," he said slowly.

I always get to where I'm going by walking away from where I have been." ~Winnie the Pooh

it's ever so 'portant how you walk'.

In the event of a total loss of direction in life, be sure to sort our your own shit before you start telling people what to do.

Passion points to purpose.

All eyes turned to look at us' would be a slipshod way of putting it; eyes don't turn anyway, heads do, but as our little group joined the fringe of the assembly, there was a discernible swivelling of attention in our direction.

I allow myself eddies of meaning: yield to a direction of significance running like a stream through the geography of my work: you can find in my sayings swerves of action like the inlet's cutting edge: there are dunes of motion, organizations of grass, white sandy paths or remembrance in the overall wandering of mirroring mind: but Overall is beyond me — A.R. Ammons, from "Corsons Inlet," Collected Poems: 1951-1971 (W. W. Norton & Co., 1972)

Travelling in one direction. Yearning to be going the other way. She has lived here. She will survive there.

Man's greatest wisdom is to choose his obsession well.

Stop the rot or lose the plot.

We are a sum of our choices. We are not our single choices.