Quotes About Orientation

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, "Look at that, you son of a bitch." —Edgar D. Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut

Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.

That same sense of direction that animals possess perfectly also awakens in man under the right conditions.

How often did this happen to people, this not knowing where in the world you were?

I'm not gay," said Raphael. "I'm not straight. I'm not interested." "Your sexuality is 'not interested'?" Alec asked curiously. Raphael said, "That's right.

That's what a map is, you know. Just a memory.

Knowledge is not constructed abstractly on the basis of sensation but problematically on the basis of an initial tropistic and taxic unity, which is the coupling of tropism and sensation, an orientation of the living being in a polarized world.

In Israel, we read from right to left. [To Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, who had written her that he considers himself 'an American first, Secretary of State second, and a Jew third']

Awake is vertical, asleep horizontal, and drunk is dizzyingly diagonal.

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.

Actually, it's normal when you come to a new club and country: you need to get used to the language, the philosophy of the team, the squad, the coach.

The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient ourselves. The de-realized man is a disoriented man.

How can one dive into the intricate mystery of man when One doesn't see where One is located

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

I don't know where we are, but we can't be lost because we're here.

eight miles to the southwest.

anticipatory anxiety has to be counteracted by paradoxical intention; hyper-intention as well as hyper-reflection have to be counteracted by dereflection; dereflection, however, ultimately is not possible except by the patient's orientation toward his specific vocation and mission in life.16 It is not the neurotic's self-concern, whether pity or contempt, which breaks the circle formation; the cue to cure is self-transcendence!

Meaning orientation had subsided, and consequently the seeking of immediate pleasure had taken over.

Human beings forget they created the images in order to orientate themselves in the world. Since they are no longer able to decode them, their lives become a function of their own images: Imagination has turned into hallucination. This

The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of passing or having passed, or hoping to pass, through certain intense human emotions. It was a phenomenon of orientation rather than of art, thus comparable to stripes of paint on a roadside rock or to a pillared heap of stones marking a mountain trail.

The fundamental condition of man is his verticality.