Direction Quotes

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It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer… — Edward Hoagland
A beaver does not, as legend would have it, know which direction the tree will fall when he cuts it, but counts on alacrity to… — Ann Zwinger
It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision… — Dinaw Mengestu
I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the… — Edward Weston
Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every… — Edward Abbey
The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and… — Edward Abbey
Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be… — Douglas Adams
It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with… — Isaac Asimov
One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy,… — Sigmund Freud
When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and… — John Dewey
Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case.… — Jhumpa Lahiri
What else is belief but direction? — Mohsin Hamid
To paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the streets of Copenhagen...Capitalism is the specter, almost nobody wants to mention it...Socialism,… — Hugo Chavez
I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand… — Robert Rauschenberg
There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend. — Ted Koppel
Richard Clarke had plenty of opportunities to tell us in the administration that he thought the war on terrorism was moving in the wrong direction… — Condoleezza Rice
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To… — Roger Zelazny
Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to which the system… — Kent Beck
I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have… — David Horowitz
Remember that you can do anything you want to do. Don't let anyone say, 'You're not smart enough... it's too hard... it's a dumb idea...… — Meg Whitman

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