Direction Quotes

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There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus… — Arthur Eddington
The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a… — Walter Russell
The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at… — Ludwig von Mises
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the… — Milton Friedman
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique… — Milton Friedman
You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is… — Oprah Winfrey
You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose. — Walter Russell
The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I… — Paulo Coelho
If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you… — Tom Stoppard
Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions… — Isaac Asimov
In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have… — James Bryant Conant
The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end. — John Steinbeck
It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that… — Albert Einstein
In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression. — Margaret J. Wheatley
The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils… — Richard Dawkins
The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely… — C.S. Lewis
Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to… — Peter Drucker
If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to… — Anton Chekhov

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