Quotes About New Directions

#1. The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through the angel Gabriel, had the power they did because they indicated new truths, new directions for followers.

Julian Baggini

#2. The older we get, the less prone we are to putting off what we really want to do, therefore you will be able to seek out new directions later.

Wendy Lustbader

#3. Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
[Reviewing A Feminist Dictionary by Cheris Kramarae and Paula A Treichler in New Directions for Women (1986)]

Marie Shear

#4. Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

E. O. Wilson

#5. After four seasons of co-hosting 'Wipeout,' I have been given the opportunity to pursue new directions in my acting career, which I am very passionate about. I am extremely grateful to all those at 'Wipeout,' Endemol and ABC, who have been so supportive of me through these years.

Jill Wagner

#6. So please, in the name of John, Paul, George, and possibly Ringo, do not be afraid to screw up once in a while. Life can beat every creative impulse out of you and make you scared to embark in new directions. I say, embark away. (Doug French)

Heather B. Armstrong

#7. Events are temporary. Bad things happen, but usually we do not feel their effects on us forever. It's really true that time heals wounds. Your disappointments are important and serious, but your distress will pass and your life will take you in new directions. Give yourself some time.

David Niven

#8. Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come to bear.

David DuChemin

#9. A book is a path of words which takes the heart in new directions.

John O'Donohue

#10. Before you can move in new directions, you must first let go of what's not working for you.

Alberto Villoldo

#11. Creativity is essentially a "calling" and our callings are guides to new directions or expansions of old ones.

Anonymous

#12. However much grief I carried, I liked the way my life was tending, these bright new directions. It's only human, to mourn and to reach toward forwardness at once.

Mark Doty

#13. I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.

Ai Weiwei

#14. The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

Adolf Loos

#15. The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

Michael Gira

#16. Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#17. I first got really interested in Noh in about 1977. There was an independent bookstore in Bloomington, Indiana where I was going to high school. It was a really nice place. There was a New Directions paperback. It was the Pound/Fenollosa book, 'The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan.'

William T. Vollmann

#18. I think it's the next thing, getting out of the comfort-zone readership, that at some point you have to try and break out of that and see if you can go in new directions. I wanted to do something that felt a lot bigger than a book that's going to sit on a toilet.

Drew Magary

#19. It's always great when you get a lot of people pushing themselves to do better, be better, invent better, better serve, better lead customers in new directions.

Steve Ballmer

#20. I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions.

Cliff Martinez

#21. My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.

Alber Elbaz

#22. Constraint inspired creativity. Blank spaces are difficult to fill, but the smallest prompt can send us in fantastic new directions

Biz Stone

#23. Loss provides an opportunity to take inventory of our lives, to reconsider priorities, and to determine new directions.

Gerald Lawson Sittser

#24. To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions.

Marty Neumeier

#25. Being an entrepreneur isn't just a job title, and it isn't just about starting a company. It's a state of mind. It's about seeing connections others can't, seizing opportunities others won't, and forging new directions that others haven't.

Tory Burch

#26. I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New directions? Interesting. Great insights? Over-ambitious. A glimpse here and there? Perfect.

Lesley Hazleton

#27. One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

Patrick Stump

#28. Sometimes you just have to pick a direction and make mistakes. Then you use what you learn from your failure to pick new, better directions so you can make more mistakes and keep learning.

Matthew Quick

#29. Lasorda's standard reply when some new kid would ask directions to the whirlpool was to tell him to stick his foot in the toilet and flush it.

Steve Garvey

#30. You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.

Edward De Bono

#31. What I'm having is this conflict in my life right now, that in New York, I see my directing friends and I see acting friends and they've all got this level of passion about either or both of those directions that I've never really found myself having.

Danny Pintauro

#32. Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works.

Francis Bacon

#33. You have this impression from England that New Yorkers can be quite aggressive, but certainly the people that I've bumped into and the friends I've made here don't seem that way. Just walking down the street and asking for directions, people seem to be very helpful and happy to help.

Archie Panjabi

#34. If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.

Jennifer Granholm

#35. Democritus believed that the soul was made up of special round, smooth 'soul atoms.' When a human being died, the soul atoms flew in all directions, and could then become part of a new soul formation.

Jostein Gaarder

#36. 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

#37. Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others dropped.

Christopher Columbus

#38. People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.

William Kamkwamba

#39. Further along is fairly specific compared to other New Hampshire forms of directions; we don't enjoy giving directions in New Hampshire - we tend to think that if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are.

John Irving

#40. Passion and true passion is actually very unpredictable. It heads in unexpected directions because it's constantly seeking out new challenges. But what's really interesting is that passion ultimately is necessary for sustained extreme performance improvement.

John Hagel III

#41. We don't enjoy giving directions in New Hampshire - we tend to think that if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are. In Canada, we give directions more freely - to anywhere, to anyone who asks.

John Irving

#42. You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities.

Bruce Lee

#43. I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

Edward Weston

#44. New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves.

Katharine Brush

#45. When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.

Claude Bernard

#46. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Amelia Earhart

#47. No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

Amelia Earhart

#48. As she'd walked along this street, a million stars stretched across an indigo canvas, holding all the freedom she'd yearned for every night.

Katherine McIntyre

#49. The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.

Drew Gilpin Faust

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.

Sylvia Plath

#53. It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

David Rockefeller

#54. In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.

Mohsin Hamid