Direction Quotes - page 4

I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, or variations that lead to mastery. I steer clear of definitions. I don't know what I want. I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. (Gerhard Richter)
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 - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed. View quote
Robert Rauschenberg
There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of Abstract expressionism – as though the man and the work were the same – that personally always put me off because at that time my focus was in the opposite direction. View quote
Robert Rauschenberg
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. View quote
Edmund Burke
If the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel won't help. View quote
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a stupid action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such? View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class. View quote
Nancy Pelosi
It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The first step in the direction of a world rule of law is the recognition that peace no longer is an unobtainable ideal but a necessary condition of continued human existence. But to take even this step we must return to a calm and responsible frame of mind in which we can face the long patient tasks ahead. View quote
Margaret Mead
I hung up. It was a step in the right direction, but it didn't go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hid under the desk. View quote
Raymond Chandler
It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future. View quote
Carl Rogers
Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused through society. View quote
Robert McNamara
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming. View quote
Charles Barkley
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. View quote
Stephen Fry
That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit. View quote
Emil Cioran
It isn't at all a matter of being optimistic, but rather of continuing to have faith in the ongoing and literally unending process of emancipation and enlightenment that, in my opinion, frames and gives direction to the intellectual vocation. View quote
Edward Said
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 that direction. View quote
Cordell Hull
I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it back to the people where it goes into their lives and nourishes them and changes their direction and makes light bulbs go off in their head and makes them feel. And it isn't vague, it strikes against the very nerves of their life and in order to do that you have to strike against the very nerves of your own. View quote
Joni Mitchell
Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away. View quote
Arundhati Roy
For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers. (Rudolf Rocker)
Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
If you're watchin' a parade, make sure you stand in one spot, don't follow it, it never changes. And if the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction, you will fast-forward the parade. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction. View quote
Cyril Connolly