direction quotes

• Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past. (Margaret Thatcher) [change/direction/greatness/willpower]
• Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well. (Maya Angelou) [right/responsibility/direction/choice]
• Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The marketing immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder. (Jean Baudrillard) [thing/being/direction/marketing]
• We must travel in the direction of our fear. (John Berryman) [direction/fear]
• In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. (Edmund Burke) [follow/give/direction/form]
• 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 in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them. (Isadora Duncan) [people/state/direction/leisure]
• Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [direction/life]
• It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music. (Eric Hoffer) [music/direction/willpower/music]
• I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [find/thing/direction/reach]
• The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [thing/direction]
• Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction. (David Kelley) [direction]
• Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. (John F. Kennedy) [courage/direction]
• We are not retreating -- we are advancing in another direction. (Douglas MacArthur) [direction]
• We are not retreating -- we are advancing in another direction. (Douglas MacArthur) [direction]
• When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently. (Henry Miller) [men/direction]
• Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. ( Plato) [change/direction]
• The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. ( Plato) [direction]
• An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod. (Franklin Roosevelt) [give/direction/more]
• Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches. (John Ruskin) [competition/direction/source]
• When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love. ( Socrates) [desire/right/direction/pleasure]
• What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life. (Henry David Thoreau) [life/obedience/direction/life]
• The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams. (Henry David Thoreau) [bees/direction]
• Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. (Brian Tracy) [control/direction/change]
• No matter what you do, be true to yourself. If you truly believe in what you are doing do not let ANYBODY steer you in a different direction. Trust in your own instincts. (Cindy Margolis) [matter/direction/trust]
• What they're planning to do on a couple of pesticides is a step in the right direction but the EPA has not gone far enough, (Adam Goldberg) [right/direction]
• I'm now projecting my career in a totally different direction. I am going to work less-way less. And I want to work better. I want to direct again, I want to do more theatre, and I want to do exactly those movies that I want to do. (Antonio Banderas) [career/direction/more/theatre]
• Being a leading man on a film set under the direction of somebody like Dickie Attenborough is very empowering, and you have to be extremely careful how you use that power. (Ben Kingsley) [being/film/direction/power]
• The purpose of Direction Records is to seek out statement-makers. The album is solely comprised of compositions designed to reflect my thoughts on the turbulent aspects of modern society. (Bobby Darin) [direction/thoughts/society]
• I always watch rushes. They give me a sense of whether I'm going in the right direction. You work hard and hopefully get encouragement from what you see. (Kevin Bacon) [give/right/direction]
• Those moments right before we invaded, I wish that I could have done something. But professionally, I don't go in that direction of choosing things based on personal politics. (Kevin Bacon) [right/wish/direction/politics]
• I had just gotten out of jail and I wanted to make a record. I saw my brother making millions of dollars and I'm still struggling, so I compromised. But they continued to push me further in the opposite direction. I decided not to make another record. (Mark Wahlberg) [direction]

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