Directed Quotes
671 quotes by 580 authors
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Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting…
— Ramana Maharshi
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When your every thought and your every action is directed to your ultimate life goals, you become unstoppable and assured of great success and happiness.
— Robin Sharma
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A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse, and…
— Thomas Nelson Page
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But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they…
— Samuel Johnson
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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart…
— Ramakrishna
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
— Sydney J. Harris
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I have directed all of my cabinet to work to prepare a transition plan for the incoming administration.
— Scott McCallum
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The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the…
— Karl Marx
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I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.
— Matthew William Goode
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During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them are excellent. But…
— Ishmael Reed
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Perhaps the greatest mistake we can make, which causes loss of self-respect, is making the opinions of others more important than our own opinion of…
— Wayne Dyer
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One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated…
— Joe Slovo
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We believe the world changes when the boldest thinking is directed at the toughest problems
— Bill Gates
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It must have been providence that directed Joel Morwood to dig in the right place, for he struck a lode of pure gold, as wide…
— Huston Smith
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Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is…
— Simone Weil
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Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work to be found…
— Tony Kushner
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Life is lived in the present and directed toward a future.
— Milton H. Erickson
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