Directions Quotes - page 2

Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this way it is possible to create work that refers the time span. (Bram van Velde)
While in the course of ages the nucleus of social custom inscribed in law has been subjected to but slight and gradual modifications, the other portion has been largely developed in directions indicated by the interests of the dominant classes, and to the injury of the classes they oppress. View quote
Peter Kropotkin
If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer. View quote
George Gamow
Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way. View quote
Federico Fellini
The scientist states that pressure is exerted outwards in all directions equally, whereas natural pressure (e. g. air pressure) is exerted inwards from all directions equally. View quote
Viktor Schauberger
That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions. View quote
Larry Wall
Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future. View quote
Larry Wall
Most people call it The Book of the Dead,” he told me. "Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions through the Duat to the Land of the Dead. It's like an Idiot's Guide to the Afterlife. View quote
Rick Riordan
I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism. (Herbie Hancock)
You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions. View quote
Cass Sunstein
What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement. View quote
Clara Zetkin
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure. View quote
Alan Rickman
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions. View quote
Martin Gore
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark. View quote
Bryce Courtenay
There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. View quote
Charlie Kaufman
For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing. View quote
Aleksey Igudesman
I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude. (Andrew Greeley)
I guess I'd like to have my cake and eat it, too. I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions. View quote
Cliff Martinez
You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and events that you probably couldn't anticipate and indeed probably couldn't even imagine. So just keep your eyes on the course and be ready to move in different directions depending upon the crises and opportunities with which you are faced. View quote
David Stern
What I'm having is this conflict in my life right now, that in New York, I see my directing friends and I see acting friends and they've all got this level of passion about either or both of those directions that I've never really found myself having. View quote
Danny Pintauro
I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all. View quote
Graham Nelson