Quotes with directions

  • If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?
  • One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

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  • Richard Bandler Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.
    Richard Bandler
    American author and trainer (1950 - )
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  • Henry George Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Cass Sunstein 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.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Buster Keaton I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.
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  • Bruce Robinson I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.
    Bruce Robinson
    English actor, director and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Anton Chekhov If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Anton Chekhov If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Bill Hybels If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Sydney Smith It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Stephen Leacock Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Sydney Smith Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Sydney Smith Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Benjamin Graham Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Robert Collier One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Alan Dundes Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Martin Amis Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • Charles Baudelaire The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Adolf Loos The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Ben Katchor There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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