Direction Quotes

2551 Direction quotes by 1855 unique authors

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone… — Edgar Allan Poe
History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics. — George Orwell
Play needs direction as well as work. — Elbert Hubbard
Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction:… — Rainer Maria Rilke
We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a… — Ronald Reagan
There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward. — John Steinbeck
Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated… — Isadora Duncan
Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in… — Ruth Benedict
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the… — Mark Strand
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad. — Samuel Richardson
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction. — Vinton Cerf
Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase… — Hilaire Belloc
There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction. — David Chase
What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed… — Octavio Paz
I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A… — Aharon Appelfeld
We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is… — Yehudi Menuhin
When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't… — Paul Theroux
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to… — Matthew Modine
Being on a Paul Thomas Anderson film, the best decision an actor can make is to listen to Paul Thomas Anderson. Because he's probably not… — Rami Malek
Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my… — Zayn Malik
I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though. — Zayn Malik
We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and… — Zayn Malik
It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this… — Gerald Caiafa
We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job… — Martin O'Malley
You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make… — Mark Pincus

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