Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama

I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.
Barack Obama

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
Warren Buffett

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Jim Rohn

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Jim Rohn

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Plato

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

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
Plato

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
Thomas Paine

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
Brian Tracy

She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.
Bob Hope

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
Earl Nightingale