Direction Quotes

• In every moment, we make a choice about which direction we are going to go. Once we realize that this is a self-correcting and self-organizing universe, then we don't have to look any further than our own life circumstances, the relationships and situations that we are in, to begin the transformation.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Choice

• The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Direction
  • Fair
  • Indignation

• Progressives must not portray all abortions as tragedies. . . Senator Hillary Clinton, in a 2005 speech commendable for setting forth a prochoice, pro-prevention, pro-family agenda, took the aspiration a step in the wrong direction when she called for policy changes so that abortion 'does not ever have to be exercised or only in very rare circumstances.

  

  Dawn Johnsen
  • Speech
  • Abortion
  • Aspiration

• As long as one makes some kind of conscious state, whether a “passive sensation” or an “apprehended”, come before reality, one will remain more or less in debt to the idealist method. The realist method pursues an exactly opposite course. Every given reality implies the thought which apprehends it. Therefore being is the condition of knowing; knowing is not the condition of being. When this has been established, another step in the direction of metaphysics can be taken.

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • Reality
  • Conscious
  • Debt

• More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer.

  

  Dean Potter
  • Direction
  • Closer
  • Separating

• It just sort of suggested a very specific kind of impudence like this little-man syndrome. Chucky has this Napoleon complex. He's a little guy with a lot of rage and that really pointed us in the direction of exploiting that aspect of his character, which people always seem to enjoy.

  

  David Kirschner
  • People
  • Suggested
  • Impudence

• There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Change
  • Comparing
  • Interval

• In a short story, you can use someone - we're only going to be with that person for maybe 10 pages, and they can have sort of a one note personality. And in a novel, you need to have arrows pointing more than one direction for that person.

  

  Rebecca Makkai
  • Personality
  • Someone
  • Pages

• If you have a clear mind . . . you won't have to search for direction. Direction will come to you.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Mind
  • Search
  • Direction

• Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Are you satisfied with where you are and the direction you are going? If not, take control of your life and change whatever needs to be changed. You and only you have the power to do this. You can change your world!

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • World
  • Power

• Every band works differently. What we found is that the two of us have very much got a direction that’s similar. We like art. We live and work in a place that’s full of artists, and it has a big influence on us.

  

  Jules De Martino The Ting Tings
  • Band
  • Influence
  • Direction

• Don't become weary in doing good. If we are patient, we can experience the change of heart we seek. For most of us this will require only a slight change of course, sending us toward the time north. The adjustments we must make are those 'small things', but that does not mean they are easy. Too many forces are confusing our compass. But the pull to the polar star is one we recognize. It is the direction toward home.

  

  Kathleen H. Hughes
  • Small
  • Change
  • Recognize

• It's hard to get fluffed up about love anymore. I've lived it. I try to avoid it. If I'm extremely fond of a woman, if I think I might really wind up walking down the aisle again... I go in another direction.

  

  Phil Everly The Everly Brothers
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Direction

• The way Woody Allen directs, there isn't a lot of direction. He kind of might give a few gentle suggestions, but he really says right from the first day, "Just make it sound natural, and if you don't like something, put it in your own words." And Woody Allen gives you a lot of freedom and just very polite.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Freedom
  • Direction
  • First Day

• The end-Permian extinction also seems to have been triggered by a change in the climate. But in this case, the change went in the opposite direction. Right at the time of extinction, 252 million years ago, there was a massive release of carbon into the air—so massive that geologists have a hard time even imagining where all the carbon could have come from. Temperatures soared—the seas warmed by as much as eighteen degrees—and the chemistry of the oceans went haywire, as if in an out-of-control aquarium. The water became acidified, and the amount of dissolved oxygen dropped so low that many organisms probably, in effect, suffocated.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Chemistry
  • Climate Change
  • Extinction

• What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

  

  Joseph de Maistre
  • Revolution
  • Direction
  • Opposite

• When you value your family over anything else you're always going in the right direction.

  

  Amanda Seyfried
  • Family
  • Value
  • Direction

• Going in the wrong direction but making really good time.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Time
  • Good
  • Direction

• We'll go in one direction with one album, and then we like to do the opposite right away. But it's not like we ever have an idea before we start - that would be too artificial. It all starts from just sitting in a room and playing.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Playing
  • Album
  • Starts

• In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the culture of schooling would represent a profound shift in emphasis and in direction.

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • School
  • Culture
  • Aim

• When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence and direction. You feel like you and the boats are one, you feel that no obstacle will put up any more resistance than the water does to your oars, you feel that hard work and grit and mental toughness will always win it for you in the end.

  

  Barry S. Strauss
  • Work
  • Rhythm
  • Resistance

• Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Direction
  • Speed
  • Irrelevant

• The world does not have a voice of its own. It can't tell you what it wants, what it needs. But it's yearning for something to point it in the right direction. A savior, perhaps. Save us, Chris! You must forgive me. Where have my manners gone. I don't think I've had a chance to formerly introduce myself. You may call me Bray Wyatt. But I have a thousand faces and a million names. Seducer, accuser, destroyer. I am the color red in a world full of black and white, and if you value your ability to breathe, don't get too close. Save us, Chris. Save yourself.

  

  Windham Rotunda
  • Thinking
  • Yourself
  • Breathe

• It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

  

  Gentry Lee
  • Humans
  • Shame
  • Infinity

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