Quotes About Trajectory

Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present, mindless trajectory, could land those lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again.

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

Wanda Sykes and I have had similar career trajectories. We're both from the D.C. area. She spent five years working as a contracting specialist for the NSA, and I got my master's in public health.

The answer was that it was about twenty degrees west of their projected apogee, encircling a large new habitat called Akureyri, and heading generally in the direction of the Cape Verde boneyard that separated the Greenwich segment from the Rio segment. Which meant that it would soon be in the predominantly Ivyn part of the ring.

Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe—with charity—that there is still room for Hope.

the pattern appears so ethereally, that it is hard to remember that the shape is an attractor. It is not just any trajectory of a dynamical system. It is the trajectory toward which all other trajectories converge.

When I began my practice, I said I'm going to be a pediatrician that really thinks about and understands a child's educational trajectory.

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

History doesn't go in a straight line... Over time there's a kind of a general trajectory towards a more just society, with regressions and reversals of course.

When a measurable trajectory of improvement has been established, determining whether a new technology is likely to improve a product's performance relative to earlier products is an unambiguous question.

What trends have a high probability of impacting your industry, are irreversible, and are evolving in a clear trajectory? How will these trends impact your industry? Given this, how can you open up unprecedented customer utility?

I was just a year older than Barbara when she vanished, and this fact seemed significant to me. I had a sense that the decisions I was making then would determine the rest of my life. Like with a rocket ship, the trajectory set on the ground was critical; a fraction of a degree in the wrong direction could send me to a wildly different place.

And they were heading right for it.

Evolution was a random walk across a minefield, not a pre-ordained trajectory, onward and upward toward "perfection.

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

Sometimes the biggest painful experience in your life can change the entire trajectory of your life in the mist wonderful positive way.

The uncontrolled and rapacious exploitation of oil has led to unintended consequences, and if we continue on a similar trajectory with water, the oil crisis will seem like the trailer of some horrible disaster movie.

If we want to defeat Hillary Clinton and have a chance to change the trajectory of our country, we need to unite behind the Republican ticket this November.

When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.

Obama's starting point was not as low as Manmohan Singh's starting point, and Obama's rise was not as sharp.

His superaverage midwestern town, meanwhile, has followed the same trajectory. Even as Republican economic policy laid waste to the city's industries, unions, and neighborhoods, the townsfolk responded by lashing out on cultural issues, eventually winding up with a hard-right Republican congressman

You are Source Energy, and there is a trajectory of ease. It is a path of least resistance, and you can feel when you're on that trajectory, and you can feel when you get off it. The more you proclaim that you are on it, the more you are often off it and trying to get on it. Sometimes it is better just to take a nap.

Metanarratives give meaning to individual events, tying them together in the broadest possible fashion. They help structure all of life around a pre-ordained trajectory of history.