Quotes About Trajectory

Leaders create growth trajectories by creating chains from five dimensions of growth: customer group (current or new), product (built or acquired), geography (current or new), capabilities (current or new), and culture (current or new).

the dynamical pattern characterizing sociopolitical instability in historical societies (see, for example Figure 1.1) is more complex than just a sequence of secular integrative (relatively stable) and disintegrative (relatively unstable) phases. The jagged, "saw-toothed" nature of the trajectory suggests that there is another, shorter cycle superimposed on the longer multi-century oscillations.

Hey, chaotic trajectories are just as deterministic as any other kind.

My life is one long curve, full of turning points.

It's always been my way to move about a little more horizontally. My career has never been like a shooting star.

The trajectory of her scholastic progress to that point was spectacular and unprecedented, a model for all youth; it was also an invitation to fate to stick out a foot and trip her.

It doesn't like or dislike. It just functions. It's like a lesson in ballistics. It has a trajectory we decide for it. It follows through. It targets itself, homes itself, and cuts off. It's only copper wire, storage batteries, and electricity.

Your perspective guides your thoughts, your choices, your trajectory.

Computer," said Zaphod, "tell us what our present trajectory is.

This calling can arrive at any point in your life. It is that moment when the trajectory of your life begins to turn toward the mystery of life. When I say the mystery of life, what I'm referring to is that transcendent aspect of life that shines through the world of space and time.

Imagine if you took it on in yourself to reorient your life trajectory toward your divinity. Your divinity: I so loved the world, that I gave it all of myself.

I can't speak for the Warriors but for me and my career, being traded to the Celtics changed the trajectory of my career.

Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?

As I see it, my job is to maximize my talents and experiences in a way that will help make the world better—to carry my own weight in impacting the universal trajectory of mankind.

In various memoir pieces, I have traced the trajectory of yearning through decisions made, good and bad, that had somehow kept the ambition on track.

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

There is this strangeness of a life story having no shape—or more accurately, nothing but its present—until it has its ending; and then suddenly the whole trajectory is visible.

2017 has been a watershed year for us. We steered our growth trajectory by upgrading and bringing beautiful living-spaces in the value economy segment through OYO Rooms, while launching our operated brand Townhouse.

If you want to hire the best people, the best people are already doing pretty impressive things. They have their life plans, their picture for what they want to be doing. To figure out a way in which those trajectories align really takes time.

Christianity's true and unique story line has always been incarnation. If creation is "very good" (Genesis 1:31) at its very inception, how could such a divine agenda ever be undone by any human failure to fully cooperate? "Very good" sets us on a trajectory toward resurrection, it seems to me. God does not lose or fail. That is what it means to be God.

Lincoln couldn't help wondering if what had happened at Rockers was best viewed as an isolated incident or as part of a long-established pattern, one that could be summed up as Teddy's life not, to borrow Coffin's term, working out . Even back at Minerva, Teddy had seemed resigned to the likelihood that it wouldn't. Which begged a question: Had Teddy meekly accepted what he saw as the invisible trajectory of his life, or had he courageously accepted what he couldn't possibly change?

It is not an easy thing to alter the trajectory of your life. People have expectations on your behalf. You come to believe them yourself.

Along with the direct impacts of technology, individualism and a slower life trajectory are the key trends that define the generations of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Only grand theories can illuminate long-term patterns, structures, systemic contradictions and historical shifts that may be difficult to discern, hard to understand or obscured by countless events of fleeting relevance. Yet, it is those patterns and structures that frame the trajectory of the concrete over time; that is, the making of history.