Direction Quotes - page 3

Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words. (Alfred Binet)
John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off. View quote
Donald Pleasence
I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction. View quote
David Axelrod
I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not. View quote
Dennis Muren
The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop and think about that, we are recreating ourselves. View quote
Dwight Schultz
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. View quote
Herbert Croly
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going. View quote
Irwin Corey
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. View quote
Laurence Housman
Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm not someone that thinks everything should stop growing. View quote
Matthew Sweet
Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life. View quote
Rick Larsen
Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect. (Robert Fitzgerald)
You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself. View quote
Tina Yothers
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. View quote
Trevor Nunn
My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things. View quote
Vince Gill
Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life. View quote
Rachel Carson
I have a message for my fans. Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I've found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner. View quote
Steve Irwin
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. View quote
William Falconer
Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges. View quote
William Falconer
In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support - not imperious direction - the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The state does not function as we desired. The car does not obey. A man is at the wheel and he seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes. (Vladimir Lenin)
The direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but from what we can judge today of any civilisation. The type of man dominant today is a primitive one, a Naturmensch rising up in the midst of a civilised world. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
A series of powers are at work within the great stream of Expressionism who have no outward similarity to one another but a common direction of thrust, namely the intention to give expression to things of the psyche [Seelisches] through form alone. View quote
Max Ernst
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 but a learning process... We have to keep on learning, creating, applying, by-passing, touching upon, refining and clarifying a number of notions and details that need to be improvised and applied and which, thank God, we cannot foresee. The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. View quote
Jack Kerouac