Top 100 Quotes About Different Directions
#1. (B)ut a second can split in a million different directions ...
Neal Shusterman
#2. Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I'm training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions.
Ray Lewis
#3. The two of you grew apart,' my mother would say. She made it sound as if we'd veered off in different directions, though in fact we had the exact same destination. I just never made it.
David Sedaris
#4. He had the unique ability of sending her off in two different directions at the same time. Hot and cold. Fire and Ice." (Fearless Love)
Kate Kadence
#5. Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision & weakness.
Napoleon Hill
#6. I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you off in different directions, and that is always of interest to a novelist.
Ian McEwan
#7. Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#8. Drama can be an addiction. It's so, so sneaky. Jealousy - all of those things can really send you in a lot of different crazy directions.
Christian Slater
#9. I stood there and watched thirty-five children disappear in almost as many different directions and was suddenly horrified by what I'd done. What if someone got lost or hurt? Suppose they didn't come back on time? What would I do then?
Katherine Paterson
#10. The one close to me now; even my own body
these too will soon become clouds, floating in different directions.
Izumi Shikibu
#11. The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing and tell a different story with my eyes. I believe what's more interesting is always what's not being said.
Robert Carlyle
#12. I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them in the different directions that I want to take them. You have a lot of freedom as a writer.
Ricky Schroder
#13. Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development.
Andrew Oliver
#14. During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.
Ariel Pink
#15. There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.
David Bowie
#16. Traveling and Freedom are perfect partners and offer
an opportunity to grow in different directions.
Donna Goldfein
#17. The jellyfish doesn't actively move anywhere - it's just moved with the tides. Is that what man is? Man's just the jellyfish: stuff happens to you, and you get twisted in different directions.
Andrew Buchan
#18. There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.
Charlotte Rampling
#19. The Big Dipper wheels on its bowl. In years hence it will have stopped looking like a saucepan and will resemble a sugar scoop as the earth continues to wobble and the dipper's seven stars speed in different directions.
Ann Zwinger
#20. You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.
Michael Marshall Smith
#21. The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.
Kelly Corrigan
#22. In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with ... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions.
Errollyn Wallen
#23. Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.
Martin Gore
#24. Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side ...
Hugh Prather
#25. We used a racquetball and threw it off the wall as hard as we could, then tracked it down with our eyes and feet. Nike has new balls that bounce all sorts of different directions and really help you learn to track the ball and move your feet to react quickly.
Antonio Cromartie
#26. It's good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma. I think in some ways it's better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#27. I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
Ovid
#28. Life's journey is but a series of steps. It only takes one step in a different direction to change that from good to bad, or from good to even better. Make sure your next step takes you in the right directions.
Jean Williams
#29. Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.
Nicolas Roeg
#30. Goals are like the gas in your car, you may go in many different directions after you fill up, but with out the gas you are not going anywhere
Garrison Wynn
#31. It was as though I saw for the first time that
life could branch into different paths, take different directions.
Ally Condie
#32. When you're in transition, you will need to find a different kind of security. It's not one of labels, guarantees or bank balances. It's guidance - the directions of your own inner voice. Moment by moment you know what to do. You are safer than ever before.
Tama J. Kieves
#33. I didn't know what was going on at the start in the swirling wind. The flags were all pointing in different directions and I thought the Irish had starched them just to fool us.
Mike Watkins
#34. I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.
Alicia Keys
#35. Just because our friendship has changed and now we grow in different directions, does not mean that we have to grow apart.
Toni Sorenson
#36. One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.
Horace
#37. It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions.
Paula White
#38. I enjoy directing. I don't know whether it's improving or not, but it's certainly evolving in different directions.
George Clooney
#39. If I grew up in a different background, I could see myself getting a gun and shooting an abortionist. That's my job, to imagine what could happen, what can make people go in different directions.
Todd Solondz
#40. I choose to see my life moving in different directions, all of them equally good. Some things are even better now than the way they were in my youth.
Louise Hay
#41. If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.
Clive Owen
#42. Part of me can't understand how Mom could do this. But there's that other part of me that can readily relate. Because I feel a pull in two different directions too.
Siobhan Davis
#43. Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see.
Edward Witten
#44. Steam in an open space would just simply scatter in different directions. Steam contained in an engine can move a whole train. Success comes from One-pointedness and Constancy of Aim and Effort.
Choa Kok Sui
#45. More often than not a young couple stays in the same relationship, but they walk in different directions.
Debasish Mridha
#46. There is only continual motion. If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad. There is so much, and I am torn in different directions, pulled thin, taut against horizons too distant for me to reach. Swift, ceaseless pace. Will I never rest in sunlight again - slow, languid & golden with peace?
Sylvia Plath
#47. We're like old acquaintances on trains going in different directions.
Stephen King
#48. Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.
Cameron Conaway
#49. When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions.
Lil Jon
#50. Trying to do a little bit of everything leads to doing nothing of substance. When you let the demands of a day pull you in 20 different directions, they do exactly that
Tom Rath
#51. The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.
Dejan Stojanovic
#52. Life draws us in different directions, sometimes simultaneously. When you follow the direction that life draws you in, if you stay in a very powerful state of mind, then you'll see eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#53. I'm sorry to have to tell you this way, but your mother and I are separating." When I pressed my mouth together, he corrected, "Stepmother. We're just - We're going in different directions."
"I don't know what to say, Dad. 'Hurray' just seems wrong.
Darynda Jones
#54. The difference between the girls today and models of the past is that we are not only interested in fashion: we are going in so many different directions at once. We work harder
at night and on weekends. On the modeling profession
Claudia Schiffer
#55. Since the atoms are indestructible, the disintegration of human body after death should be actually considered as the dispersion of the separate filaments (except probably those forming the bones) in all different directions.
George Gamow
#56. Video games as a storytelling medium are, from a mathematical standpoint, a branching narrative. You start at one place, you can go in multiple different directions, and there's a multitude of different endings.
Chris Milk
#57. Humans do not possess a single, focused will. In their hearts, they have countless bugs, buzzing in all directions. There are times when all these bugs pounce on the same food, but when they are focused on different desires, people take actions that can only be described as incoherent.
Kouhei Kadono
#58. No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.
Deepak Chopra
#59. My mind was spinning in so many different directions I didn't know whether to laugh, cry, or eat a fried calf testicle.
Elle Casey
#60. One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
Patrick Stump
#61. Our emotions pull us in different directions. The stronger the emotion, the greater the pull. Feelings are not always practical, nor do they make any logical sense. That's just the way it goes.
Lang Leav
#62. Thoughts can propel our lives in many different directions. However, it is our choice which ones to believe. And those are the ones capable of making the improbable possible.
Charles F. Glassman
#63. The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight different directions, he becomes, instead of the weakest piece, one of the most formidable units.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
#64. We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.
Leo Tolstoy
#65. I understand that at times, life takes us in different directions than we planned.
Nichole Chase
#66. Another principle demons use in spiritual warfare: multiple attacks, from many directions at once, or with many different weapons at once.
Peter Kreeft
#67. Life is a journey; your body walks with your mind as a single entity towards a particular direction. Death is a journey; your body walks without your mind as thousands of pieces towards thousands of different directions!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#68. Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.
Alice Walker
#69. My husband is here and I'd like to thank him, for many things, but first of all for pointing out that I had a big hole in my frock and then that my nipples were pointing in different directions. It's good to have an expert there to help you with that sort of thing.
Emma Thompson
#70. The forces are different up here at the continental divide. The magnetic lines of energy run in specific directions. The United States is divided into power zones. The Divide itself is the point where the energy meets.
Frederick Lenz
#71. 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
#72. Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
Sam Kean
#73. Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
Jill Lepore
#74. When the effort is in question, the ball goes in different directions and the ball doesn't always bounce your way. When you're playing in the home of the NBA champions, it isn't going to be easy.
Ray Allen
#75. Not that incentives are always so easy to figure out. Different types of incentives - financial, social, moral, legal, and others - push people's buttons in different directions, in different magnitudes. An incentive that works beautifully in one setting may backfire in another.
Anonymous
#76. The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity
David Hume
#77. Underneath it, he had snuck out of the house wearing a T-shirt that said I'M WITH STUPID, with arrows pointing in all different directions. It pretty much summed up how I was feeling today, too. Surrounded by stupid.
Kami Garcia
#78. Memory works in different ways for everybody. Different capacities, different directions, too. Sometimes memory helps you think, sometimes it impedes. Doesn't mean it's good or bad. Probably means it's no big deal.
Haruki Murakami
#79. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.
Deborah Tannen
#80. It's amazing how flexible the human mind is in terms of jumping into a backstory or an aside. Vonnegut is a great example - it's not a linear story by any means, but somehow your brain is keeping it moving in one direction even though the story is taking you in all these different directions.
Noah Hawley
#81. I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.
Christopher Nolan
#82. I just try to keep going and work on projects that are exciting to me, with people I respect and enjoy and want to work with. That takes me in different directions sometimes, but it's all been a pretty good ride.
Tom McCarthy
#83. It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.
Sara Zarr
#84. This world is going in all sorts of directions, but I think all you can do is get people to think about things in a different way, because sometimes people aren't even thinking.
Jillian Hervey
#85. (for memory and clairvoyance, which are the same thing in two different directions).
Maggie Stiefvater
#86. When you plan ahead, shit never goes wrong, just in different directions. - Welliver.
James Cox
#87. That's kind of what we have here. I think we've just grown apart, we have different philosophies, and we're going in different directions,
Lance Burton
#88. And with that, they parted like two strangers, setting off in entirely different directions, just as they had in the past, as if it were some kind of bad habit, or maybe just a curse.
Jennifer E. Smith
#89. When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own.
Ray Stevenson
#90. The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like pinballs caught in a tight corner.
Cole Alpaugh
#91. A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.
Todd Solondz
#92. Funny how someone could be so important in your life and then ... then you go a long period of time without them even entering your thoughts. It wasn't anyone's fault. Life took people in different directions.
C.C. Hunter
#93. Panic is the last thing we can afford," Coppelia said. "Panic will have everyone rushing off in different directions to try to 'save the Library.' Panic is the antithesis to good organization. Panic is messy. I am against panic on a point of principle.
Genevieve Cogman
#94. I've been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it's good music for ADD because it just throws you in different directions all the time. I really like Kim Gordon's voice and Thurston Moore's voice, and I like the guitars going off on tangents.
Norman Reedus
#95. We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.
Les Paul
#96. 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
#97. I was surprised that each expert cared for different images, and had varied suggestions for how to continue my work. If each expert had been my teacher, I would have pursued four different directions, and lost my way.
Jane Fulton Alt
#98. 'What if?' statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you'll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control.
Travis Bradberry
#99. demand and supply are merely two sides of the same coin. They are the same thing looked at from different directions. Supply creates demand because at bottom it is demand. The supply of the thing they make is all that people have, in fact, to offer in exchange for the things they want.
Henry Hazlitt
#100. Have you ever held a snake? They are so strong. You can see why there are so many myths about them: they are unlike any other creature. It's extraordinary how that little brain can keep everything moving in different directions.
Michelle Paver
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