Directions Quotes

“Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.”
― Roseanne Barr

“What if you were wrong? What if everything you ever believed was a lie? What if you missed your opportunity because you didn't know your worth? What if you settled on familiar, but God was trying to give you something better? What if you decided not to go backwards, but forward? What if doing what you have never done before was the answer to everything that didn't make sense? What if the answer wasn't to be found in words, but in action? What if you found the courage to do what you really wanted to do and doing it changed your whole life?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions.

It is the one true and perfect symbol of the universe.

And it is the one most accurate symbol of you.

Spread your arms in an embrace, throw your head back, and prepare to receive and send coordinates of being. For, at last you know—you are the navigator, the captain, and the ship.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Do not ask directions from the people around you. Ask directions from the person who called you.”
― Bo Sanchez

“Strategy makes sure that all your resources are used efficiently, that your efforts will convert into the desired outcome and that you are heading in the direction of your goal.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“In this he was like most Midwesterners. Directions are very important to them. They have an innate need to be oriented, even in their anecdotes. Any story related by a Midwesterner will wander off at some point into a thicket of interior monologue along the lines of "We were staying at a hotel that was eight blocks northeast of the state capital building. Come to think of it, it was northwest. And I think it was probably more like nine blocks. And this woman without any clothes on, naked as the day she was born except for a coonskin cap, came running at us from the southwest... or was it the southeast?" If there are two Midwesterns present and they both witnessed the incident, you can just about write off the anecdote because they will spend the rest of the afternoon arguing points of the compass and will never get back to the original story. You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.”
― Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

“I could crawl inside the lyrics and know each note intimately. They would claw at my soul, until I could no longer fight the emotions that took me to a place I couldn't experience. But, it was the possibility that made every verse a heart filled prediction and every beat a direction to follow.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“Ever since the day of the mistake with my Match. I've never known which life is my true one. Even with the reassurances of the Offical that day in the greenspace, I think a part of me hasn't felt at peace. It was as though I saw for the first time that life could branch into different paths, take different directions.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“Don't ask for directions if you're not going to start the car.”
― Rob Liano

“the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“When I had to work Shea Stadium for a Mets-Braves game – Atlanta pitcher John Rocker had recently given an interview in which he denounced New Yorkers of all Colors and preferences – I was assigned to a parking lot, where numerous drivers asked me for directions to various highways. When my first answer – “I have no idea” – seemed to invite denunciation and debate, I revised it to “Take the first left.” For all I know, those people are still lost in Queens. ”
― Edward Conlon, Blue Blood by Conlon, Edward (2004) Paperback

“Do not succumb to the direction life bends you. Resist the wind, and win.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“True knowledge is thus the key to happiness. However, you can’t have such knowledge merely from books or by listening to scholars. True knowledge comes only by experiencing life and connecting the dots. When you are aware and your mind is disciplined, true knowledge flows from all directions into your being.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“Failures are the directions to discovery.”
― Steven Magee

“When destiny is at play, every wrong turn leads to the right direction.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“When giving directions, it's important to be precise. Invoke words such as yonder.”
― Jarod Kintz, I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge

“Truck drivers are great with directions. Landmarks, road conditions, the works. The only problem is that they’ll give you five different routes to just get to the next town. By the time they’re done, you won’t know what the hell to do.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“The direction you don't look at is the fate you missed! If you look at every direction, you will rule every fate!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“This is a song the Papago Indians like to sing when they go traveling around somewhere:

They have gone,
The birds of the sky.
They have gone,
The animals of the earth,
They have returned
Along their own trail.

On a white rock under the Moon,
On a red rock under the Sun,
On a black rock they sat,
On a yellow rock they rested
And looked back and saw butterflies,
They looked behind them and saw
A whirlwind,
And they watched the whirlwind
And it was a tree
Standing in a cool shadow.

They sit under the tree in the shadow,
They sit under the still tree.
(page 68, The Great Wheat Harvest)”
― George Webb, A Pima Remembers

“754 You would regard as absurd a day-laborer who criticised the instructions of the engineer in a building project or a construction worker who criticised an architect’s plans for the building of a house, or a medical assistant who criticised a surgeon’s directions. Why then do you criticise your superiors who have more factors to consider than you can imagine?”
― François-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận, The Road of Hope: A Gospel from Prison

“You can never reach the truth by looking in the same direction all the time!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Sky is simile of a goal that beckons as well as keeps receding as you fly towards it, making it an infinite journey. The Sanskrit word for sky, "aakaasha", is even more expressive, its meaning being space as well. Matter that represents all things worldly can never fill space as all matter is permeable and is always permeated by space. So matter can neither fill, nor fulfill. Contrasted with matter, space is "nothingness" the ancient Indians' concept of God. Yet, it is made of all possible paths, "dik", the Sanskrit word for direction, being used to describe space as constituted of infinite directions. Thus the infinite paths to the infinite goal make us reach where we already are - in infinite space.”
― R. N. Prasher

“For people who don't know which direction to go, there is only one direction: To stay where they are!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“We move in many directions at any given time.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“If you're looking for light in the midst of darkness, your only source of direction is enlightenment.”
― DaManIAm

“I should have asked for the direction before I drove us both into insanity.”
― Aleksandra Weretelnik, Nobody Has More of Me

“You cannot be lost if you don't care where you're going.”
― Aegelis, Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light

“To find God, all that you have to do is ask for directions.”
― Anthony T. Hincks