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Quotes About Direction

You asked what Hazel would do. She'd be along her homing line, of course—and Hazel always oriented around her drive line so as to get the Sun on the back of her neck, if possible. Her eyes aren't too good.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
To paraphrase Sherlock Holmes; when you have eliminated what you can't do, what remains is what you must do.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Escape speed is not a vector quantity; it is scalar.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Boredom is mostly caused by not doing what you want to do which is caused by not knowing what to do or not knowing how to get out of a situation that you are in.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
See, being a person is kind of random and arbitrary business. You may have noticed that. And you need to believe in something to keep it from being too random and arbitrary to handle. Some people take religion, or success, or patriotism, or family, but for a lot of guys those things don't work. A guy like me. I don't have religion or family that sort of thing. So you accept some system of order, and you stick to it.
~ Robert B. Parker
Ollie do any of his own work?" "Mostly he runs things.
~ Robert B. Parker
How to Manage Performance
~ Robert Bacal
Looking back, looking back and trying to figure what made you that way, several things stand out in your mind. There may have been more than several. Maybe there were a hundred. Maybe a thousand. Small events, little episodes, all pointing you in the same direction, so that you might think you had free will when you wobbled from side to side on the track, but there were no switches for you to throw, no turnings to choose.
~ Robert Bloch
Because of the wind, the crows were pointing in one direction but traveling in another. I wondered if they knew it, and, knowing it, understood it, or if they were simply oblivious, carried along by a force that was felt but not seen. The same thing happens to people, but most of the time they don't know it, or when they know it, they think it an action of their own devising. They are usually wrong.
~ Robert Crais
The arrows. What they mean is, you control who you are by moving forward, never back; you move forward. That's what I do. That's what we're going to do.
~ Robert Crais
A black Chevy coupe with acne corrosion passed in the opposite direction, and two aging black pickups.
~ Robert Crais
Ellis said, "Look, Mr. Warren signs the checks, right? He says jump, I say which side of my ass you want me to land on?
~ Robert Crais
If you've got fifty goals," the governor once lectured the Texas Education Agency, "you've got no goals.
~ Robert Draper
It hurts to be lost. You go native because it's better to be wrong than to be lost.
~ Robert Ferrigno
The middle of the road is where the white line is—and that's the worst place to drive.
~ Robert Frost
THE FIGURE A POEM MAKES No one can really hold that ecstasy should be static and stand still in one place. It begins in delight, it inclines to the impulse, it assumes direction with the first line laid down, it runs a course of lucky events, and ends in a clarification of life- Not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
~ Robert Frost
En un bosque se bifurcaron dos caminos, y yo... Yo tomé el menos transitado. Esto marcó toda la diferencia.
~ Robert Frost
Di hutan, kulihat dua cabang jalan terbentang. Kuambil yang jarang dilalui orang. Dan itulah yang membuat segala perbedaan
~ Robert Frost
I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that had made all the difference.
~ Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. The Road Not Taken
~ Robert Frost
Zdarzy?o mi si? niegdy? ujrze? w lesie rano dwie drogi: pojecha?em t? mniej ucz?szczan? - Reszta wzi??a si? z tego, ?e to j? wybra?em
~ Robert Frost
All things which make noise at the side of the path do not come down the path. AFRICAN PROVERB
~ Robert Fulghum
As Xenophon said, your obstacles are not rivers or mountains or other people; your obstacle is yourself. If you feel lost and confused, if you lose your sense of direction, if you cannot tell the difference between friend and foe, you have only yourself to blame.
~ Robert Greene
As Xenophon said, your obstacles are not rivers or mountains or other people; your obstacle is yourself. If you feel lost and confused, if you lose your sense of direction, if you cannot tell the difference between friend and foe, you have only
~ Robert Greene