Quotes About Compass

We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

Now of all voyagers I remember, who among them Did not board ship with grief among their maps?

It was my compass; a direction I could point myself in every day and say this is who I am now, this is what I do. The store is your compass.

We are more in need of a vision or destination and a compass (a set of principles or directions) and less in need of a road map.

He closed her eyes and she slept. The people of the Crowd watched her, while somewhere else sailors read the memory of her face, the compass of mazes.

Each of us develops a moral compass (some stronger than others, to be sure) as we make our way through the world. This is for the most part a wonderful thing. Who wants to live in a world where people run around with no regard for the difference between right and wrong?

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

The unsound convert is willingly ignorant, loves not to come to the light. He is willing to keep such or such a sin, and therefore is loathed to know it to be a sin, and will not let in the light at that window. Now, the gracious heart is willing to know the whole latitude and compass of his Maker's law. He receives with all acceptation the Word which convinceth him of any duty that he knew not, or minded not before, or which discovereth any sin that lay hid before.

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.

I love my ink. They all have a meaning. I'm very strong in my faith, so I wanted to have some religious images. I've got Pieta, a Michelangelo sculpture of Mary holding Jesus after he came off the cross, on my shoulder. A sacred heart on my arm. Musical notes because I love music. The compass on my chest is there because church is my compass.

It's the community that helps form our moral compass. It's those attitudes that I've remembered through my entire lifetime.

If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the world you can see and touch - the everyday world that is too easily dismissed as everyday - you see largeness, generosity, hope, change for the better. It's always small, but it's real.

Nothing was a more powerful compass of my mood or a better indication of my self-worth than the number on the scale.

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

We need to elect leaders who have a strong moral compass. Leaders who are honest, straightforward, and tough - with a love of justice and fair play.

The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.

I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.

You have to learn how to listen to your emotions, letting your internal compass guide you. Your emotions let you know when you are on and off track.

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

You've got to trust [that] your own compass will lead you away from whatever mistakes were made.

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization's anchor. We are the compass for humanity's conscience.

Let's qualify. A worthless guy who likes insecure women wants to mistreat her so he can feel powerful. Why is he worthless? Because he has no moral compass. To him, cruelty is a good thing. (That alone makes him worthless.)

Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take.