Quotes About Aimlessness

#1. My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

Adele

#2. Principle: To counter aimlessness, you must define your battles wisely, and build your life around winning them.

Todd Henry

#3. The American public should simply accept no distractions. In our democracy, it is our duty to hold our elected leaders accountable. We do it at the ballot box.

Wesley Clark

#4. There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

T.E. Lawrence

#5. I'm sure he doesn't see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable.

Colin Cotterill

#6. Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.

James Allen

#7. A goal ensures progress. But one gets much further without a goal.

Marty Rubin

#8. After my time in Holland, an inner battle ensued in which I tried to free myself from the influence of Schinkelesque classicism.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#9. In books or films, it is desirable to have a climactic battle scene, but the world does not operate in those gross dramatic terms. In Vietnam, there was a general aimlessness, not just in the physical sense, but beyond that in the moral and ethical sense.

Tim O'Brien

#10. It had been a long quest. Yet I was within casting distance of my dream.

Fennel Hudson

#11. Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.

Benjamin De Casseres

#12. The lesson? Powerful people sometimes do things to help people like me without really understanding people like me.

J.D. Vance

#13. I am overachieving at aimlessness, I am a type-A, alpha-girl lollygagger, the leader of a gang of heartbroken kids, running wild across this lonely strip of amusements, each of us smarting from the betrayals of a loved one.

Gillian Flynn

#14. One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.

Suzy Kassem

#15. Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.

Hans Selye

#16. Life may be nothing but a series of detours.

Marty Rubin

#17. Those who choose to have no real purpose in life are ever rootless and dissatisfied, tossed by their aimlessness into ever-changing situations.

Seneca.

#18. We're all drifters here, embarked on an aimless journey

Marty Rubin

#19. I have people trying to kill me. A giraffe is low on my list of disturbances.

Janet Evanovich

#20. Funny, how things became very simple once a man's course was decided. It was the aimlessness of choice that made mischief, among both sidhe and mortals.

Lilith Saintcrow

#21. As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.

Tom Brady

#22. We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.

George Santayana

#23. Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life ... Freedom demands structure.

Garrison Keillor

#24. We're not supposed to touch the dead. This is why we make a comfortable afterlife for them, so they will not reach out. We hope to distract them, keep them busy. Burial is a hope.

David Vann

#25. ...when the createdness of the other person is not viewed as necessary as our own - then there is no reason (beyond expediency) to treat the other as a person. All injustice and cruelty come, basically, from this distorted view of reality.

Sydney J. Harris

#26. How I would like to have them back, those pointless afternoons - the boredom, the aimlessness, the unformed possibilities.

Margaret Atwood

#27. ...I sit there aimlessly, God's aim is aimlessness.

Nescio

#28. Never have a plan; it'll just get in your way.

Marty Rubin

#29. One of the basic tenets of radical feminism is that any woman in the world has more in common with any other woman regardless of class, race, age, ethnic group, nationality - than any woman has with any man.

Sonia Johnson

#30. Bibliomancy: Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.

Marilyn Johnson

#31. There is no sweeter pleasure than wandering aimlessly about.

Marty Rubin

#32. There are parodies of non-existent things.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#33. Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

John Ortberg