Direction Quotes

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Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction,… — Hugh Shelton
Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our… — Price Pritchett
No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task. — Charles R. Swindoll
Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you. — Charles R. Swindoll
That's what this thing called Christian life is all about, isn't it. Going . . . yet not knowing. As followers of our Lord we… — Charles R. Swindoll
We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that… — George Bernard Shaw
Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He… — Alexander MacLaren
I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and… — Roy Harper
...Force yourself to use the optimist's explanatory style: 'The situation is temporary. The effect will be limited, not pervasive. And it's due to external causes.'… — Price Pritchett
In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their… — Edmund Burke
The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction. — George Orwell
That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in… — Cordell Hull
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going. — Irwin Corey
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… — Vincent Van Gogh
First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction… — Anita Roddick
For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided by commercial operations.… — David Gelernter
If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative. — Scott Kim
If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from the open ages… — Tim Wu
Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of… — Elif Safak

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