Direction Quotes

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
Andrew Weil

Fear, Human, Greed

Voiceover excited me and terrified me. I thought I was going to be really bad at it. It was so freeing and fun to not have to wait for 10 minutes between every setup. They just throw you a direction, and you just say it.
Anna Kendrick

Fun, Bad, Thought

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.
Stockwell Day

Government, Society, Legal

If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
Melinda Gates

Life, Successful, Help

I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
Padma Lakshmi

Great, Point, Act

Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
Peter McWilliams

Focus, Reality, Thoughts

When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
Nathan Fillion

Character, Words, Living

In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.
Angela Merkel

Football, Different, Christian

So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.
Talib Kweli

Moving, Honest, Themselves

The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing.
Michael Porter

Fact, Consistent, Continuity

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.
Sinead O'Connor

Important, Young, Acting

I've always taken direction pretty well.
Victoria Justice

I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.
Leah Ward Sears

Faith, Time, Women

Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all. And I'm going to take the country in an opposite direction than he's taking it.
Dennis Kucinich

Government, Justice, Country

Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
Talcott Parsons

Fact, System, Interest

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
Zelda Fitzgerald

Time, Future, Long

And American voters understand that if we want to keep fighting to move in the new - in a new direction, we've got a long way to go. And we need to make sure we continue with Democrats being in the majority.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Long, Understand, Fighting

President Obama is making the tough decisions to get our country going in the right direction, has taken our economy from job losses to 15 straight months of job gains, cut taxes 26 times, and focused like a laser on getting the middle class back on its feet while those campaigning to replace him have failed to show they can lead on these issues.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Job, Him, Country

I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.
Carre Otis

Balance, Found, Longer

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
William Falconer

Wind, Effect, Sailing

I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.
Andy Serkis

Dad, Live, Forget

With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, I'll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don't care about the environment, that's not it. But I adore muscle cars.
Michael Symon

Love, Car, Care

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

History, Movement, Solidarity

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
George Dennison Prentice

Hope, Face, Stand

The fast, flowing parts, the high-speed corners, that's where a Formula One car is at its best - changes of direction, pulling high g-forces left and right.
Jenson Button

Best, Car, High

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
John Millington Synge

Time, Knowledge, Enough

I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.
Diana Ross

Design, School, Fashion

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.
John Dickey

Education, Power, Bad

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything.
Octavia Butler

Book, Different, Country

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.
Paul Wolfowitz

Government, Powerful, Longer

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