Direction Quotes - page 2

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. (Jimmy Dean)
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth. View quote
Janet Frame
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. View quote
Dante Alighieri
Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. View quote
Miguel Ángel Ruiz
Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. View quote
Norman Cousins
We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction. View quote
Stephen L. Carter
In the direction that your fear is growing, you're on the right path. View quote
Milorad Pavić
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. View quote
Samuel Johnson
A firm consist of the system of relationships which comes into existence when the direction of resources is dependent on an entrepreneur. View quote
Ronald Coase
My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me. (Kim Novak)
You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. View quote
Alvin Toffler
We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour. View quote
Douglas Hurd
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation of individuals the technique of the marketplace. View quote
Milton Friedman
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go. View quote
Peter McWilliams
The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing. View quote
Michael E. Porter
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. (Marcelene Cox)
If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. View quote
Melinda Gates
Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives. View quote
Mary Balogh
I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again. View quote
Walter Jon Williams
It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction. View quote
Alice Hoffman