Quotes About Trajectory

success follows a predictable course.

Happiness has more to do with where you are heading than where you are.

People are more influenced by the direction of things than the current state.

You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

We have one real candidate for changing the rules; this is string theory. In string theory the one-dimensional trajectory of a particle in spacetime is replaced by a two-dimensional orbit of a string. Such strings can be of any size, but under ordinary circumstances they are quite tiny, ... a value determined by comparing the predictions of the theory for Newton's constant and the fine structure constant to experimental values.

otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, would go wandering off on a trajectory of his own, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you with bad withdrawal, which you could counteract by exercise. If you didn't work it out it was because one of you had the wrong attitude. Everything that went on in your life was thought to be due to some positive or negative power emanating from inside your head.

The Fall was ongoing, but its trajectory led ever downward. Sucked into the well of knowledge, you could only plummet, learning more and more, but not getting any happier.

Maybe you would be able to work it out together, as if the two of you were a puzzle that could be solved; otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, would go wandering off on a trajectory of his own, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you with bad withdrawal, which you could counteract by exercise.

The Fall was ongoing, but its trajectory led ever downward. Sucked

If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

Humans employ simplified conceptual frameworks and normative cues to make sense of and cope with the infinite complexity of the natural and social world. This is the magical devise that has made our species' amazing trajectory possible, and it relies on our unique capacity for social learning.

Each time you go that road it gets more straight.

Starting a long way off the true point by loops and zigags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

What we were seeing was a little bit like throwing the apple up in the air and seeing it blast off into space.

classical Hohmann orbit—

The choice had been made. The bomb was already looking ahead, to the terminus of its new trajectory.

But, Audrey, that's what life is. We're all on a jagged graph. I know I am. Up a bit, down a bit. That's life.

Remarkably, several research teams have documented that styles of attachment at one year predict the organization of experience in young adulthood. Thus face-to-face communication between mother and infant at 4 months is a foundational process with a trajectory into adulthood.

Medicine and public health have transformed the trajectory of our lives. For all but our most recent history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty. Every day was a roll of the dice.

Where you are is merely a point along the path to where you are going.

The problem is that we tend too often to read Lincoln's growth backward, as an unproblematic trajectory toward a predetermined end. This enables scholars to ignore or downplay aspects of Lincoln's beliefs with which they are uncomfortable.

but always the prevailing trend was down.