Quotes About Course

You like to imagine yourself in control of your fate, consciously planning the course of your life as best you can. But you are largely unaware of how deeply your emotions dominate you. They make you veer toward ideas that soothe your ego.

I decided to design a course that mirrored real life.

What I want to get out of my college course is some knowledge of the best way of living life and doing the most and best with it. I want to learn to understand and help other people and myself.

I'm not an etiquette expert, but I can't help feeling that knocking our hostess's daughter over a stone balcony might not be considered the most appropriate way to celebrate the first full day of our summer course.

It wasn't the big decisions that set the course of one's life; it was the slow accretion of all the little ones.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

It was the storm that would forever change the course of human destiny.

race—but over the course of the year, as the uncertainty grows, his odds of mishap increase.

Everything is the path.

We are chaotic chemical propositions, in dire need of basic principles that we can adhere to during our brief rational spells. We should feel grateful for, and protected by, the knowledge that our external circumstances are often out of line with what we feel; it is a sign that we are probably on the right course.

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.

These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you.

The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

Hindsight tells us that during that fragile time the course of history could so easily have been changed. Why, then, did no one change it? Why did it take so long to recognize the real danger posed by Hitler and his regime?

A gyroscope kept the torpedo on course, adjusting for vertical and horizontal deflection. The track lingered on the surface like a long pale scar. In maritime vernacular, this trail of fading disturbance, whether from ship or torpedo, was called a "dead wake.

It is not given to human beings—happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable—to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.—WINSTON CHURCHILL, EULOGY FOR NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, NOVEMBER 12, 1940

I point out to Ben that, contrary to popular belief, taking action is not always the best course.

A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

To this day, I have people I might meet who will make assumptions about my life based on fictional elements of 'The Squid And The Whale.' But I think that's par for the course if you make something that feels kind of real.