Top 100 Quotes About Where You're Going
#1. There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care where you're going, and you don't care where you've come from, because all that matters is speed, and the hands holding your hands.
M T Anderson
#2. A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no idea where you're going. It can be terrifying, but it can also be the adventure of a lifetime.
Michael Piller
#3. You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra
#4. If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you're going, child.
Kurt Vonnegut
#5. If you don't care about the destination, you don't ask where you're going.
Milan Kundera
#6. I am an immigrant in a sense. What happened was that my father was stationed in New York when my mother became pregnant, and she said, "I've got to go to Sweden so this child can be born there, because you don't have any idea where you're going to be transferred next."
Claes Oldenburg
#7. I wish I could tell you the road from here to where you're going is straight and without obstacles. That is not the truth. The journey to greatness is just not that way.
Kami Guildner
#8. As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.
Michael Nesmith
#9. You don't get to pick where you're from, but you always have control of where you're going.
Chris Colfer
#10. There's a lot of cheese where you're going, Hope. I'm not sure how this affects people long term.
Joan Bauer
#13. You're on a positive road. You have some type of direction where you're going, so you have to just keep on going.
Bob Marley
#14. Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.
John Updike
#15. Australia basically holds the copyright on "weird ecosystem." The only place where you're going to find weirder things is at the bottom of the ocean, and no one suggests that you go there for a fun family vacation.)
Seanan McGuire
#16. Have an exit strategy. Just in case your current plan doesn't work, always know what your endgame is and where you're going next.
Robyn Carr
#17. What has always made our country special is that it doesn't matter where you come from; it matters where you're going. Our job is to make certain the pathways are open to both our boys and our girls.
Condoleezza Rice
#18. You must know where you came from yesterday, know where you are today, to know where you're going tomorrow." -Cree saying
Trace A. DeMeyer
#19. Maybe the best things are those that take the most work, you know? Maybe how you get somewhere can be at least as important as where you're going.
Ryan North
#20. You know what my drink is? Jack Daniel's. Yes, that is a wild man drink. That should come with bail money, you know what I'm saying? Because on Jack, you don't know where you're going to end up, but you know when you get there, you won't be wearing any pants.
Dave Attell
#21. You don't have to know where you're going every step of the way, or the destination. Trust in yourself to do what's right and what's needed.
Amalie Howard
#22. Do what you want to do, And go where you're going to. Think for yourself 'Cause I won't be there with you.
George Harrison
#23. The trouble in this life is that you never really know where you're going.
~Andy Peters
Agatha Christie
#24. With touring, it's like you're in this car and you've got this much fuel. You know that if you drive carefully and take your time and search your way so that you don't take the wrong turn, you'll have exactly enough fuel to go where you're going. You are empowered as you go by your audience.
Lisa Gerrard
#25. What you wear doesn't really matter much. All that matters is where you're going what you're doing while you're wearing it.
J.A. Redmerski
#26. Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's knowing how to find your way back home that's important.
Clare Vanderpool
#27. No matter where you're going it's the wrong place.
Tobe Hooper
#28. It is the first shower that wets."
"Marriage is like picking the place where you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blind fold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart."
"Our marriage, like all marriages, was happy until it wasn't
Tom McNeal
#29. I kept walking. Have you ever done that? Just walk. Just walk and have no idea where you're going? It wasn't a good feeling, but not a bad one either. I felt caged and free at the same time, like it was only myself that wouldn't allow me to feel either great or miserable.
Markus Zusak
#30. All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
Earl Nightingale
#31. Focus on where you're going and you'll know what steps to take. Focus on the steps you're taking and you won't know where you're going.
Simon Sinek
#32. I believe in the law of attraction ... I believe you can speak things into existence. When you know where you're going and you know what you want, the universe has a way of stepping aside for you.
Jon Jones
#33. You'll be hard-pressed to reach your goals if you don't map out where you're going. Take time to navigate your life.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#34. My brain needs to be a sentient being that way it can say, "Nadiyah. NADIYAH!! I know where you're going with this and you need to stop!
Nadiyah Abdul-Khaliq
#35. If you don't know where you're going, you may miss it when you get there
Kathleen Long
#36. If you define yourself by what you're running away from, then how do you know when you've arrived at where you're going to?
Julia Kent
#37. The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a tough audience to surprise, and a tough audience to write for. It's much more competitive now, because the audience is so much more - I want to say 'sophisticated.'
Betty White
#38. If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning.
Denis Waitley
#39. That's what life is, you know: a bunch of baby steps, one after another after another, and sometimes you fall, but you always get back up, and eventually you get where you're going.
Claire Legrand
#40. There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.
Jena Malone
#41. Because what you are, as a teenager, is a small, silver, empty rocket. And you use loud music as fuel, and then the information in books as maps and coordinates, to tell you where you're going.
Caitlin Moran
#42. You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.
Robert M. Pirsig
#43. If you don't know where you're going, when you get there you'll be lost.
Yogi Berra
#44. If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.
Cyndi Lauper
#45. Plastic and electricity," he said with a look of disgust. "This is how you people think you will ascend to the heaven. But if you climb too high, younger brother, the angels will ask you where you're going.
G. Willow Wilson
#46. The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're going, so I always think about the future.
J.H. Wyman
#47. Stephen Sondheim said : If you know where you're going, you've gone. Move on.
Jennifer Crusie
#48. Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas.
Quinn Anderson
#49. Destiny might drop you off somewhere but it's your job to get where you're going, to decide your own ending ...
Rebecca Serle
#50. You can't get where you're going without being where you've been.
Lisa Graff
#51. Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
Christopher Morley
#52. Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?
Mos Def
#53. If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there.
from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson
Chris Van Allsburg
#54. The challenge, whenever you create anything, is to persevere and push away the negative voices. And the more you accomplish, the louder they get. The key is to shut them off and trust in your heart where you're going.
Anne Bancroft
#55. If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.
Larry Poons
#56. One way of building private foresight out of public data is looking where others aren't ... if you want to see the future, go to an industry confab and get the list of what was talked about. Then ask, "What did people never talk about?" That's where you're going to find opportunity.
Gary Hamel
#57. Don't concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal - leave that completely to a power greater than yourself. All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord, and at the right time.
Earl Nightingale
#58. Of course," the cabbie said, "you don't know where you're going unless you know where you're going.
Emily St. John Mandel
#59. Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.
George Lucas
#60. It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
Jim Jarmusch
#61. What you've been through has nothing to do with where you're going.
Leia Shaw
#62. Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death
Stella Adler
#63. But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.
Chris Kyle
#64. There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been.
Richard Proenneke
#65. You can't know where you're going until you know where you are.
Bill Burnett
#66. Don't look to where you've come from. Look to where you're going.
Alison Kent
#67. I mean, that's where you're going with this, aren't you? Just because we rattled off some names doesn't mean we have any control over them dying or going missing or whatever.
Sara Shepard
#68. When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.
Catie Curtis
#69. There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.
Dave Brubeck
#70. Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.
Ken Blanchard
#71. Wearily, she sat up. Jesus was not coming today. She would have to die later, she decided. There was no use lying out here like a fool in the rain. One step, she thought. One step and then the next gets you where you're going.
Robert McCammon
#72. It's OK if you don't know how much more you can handle. It's fine if you don't know what to do next. Eventually, you'll let go of how things should be and start to see possibility based on reality. It's YOUR life, grasp the steering wheel and force yourself to pay attention to where you're going.
Wendy Keller
#73. Path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you're going on it is only a story. Where you've been on it is only another. Some of the stories are pleasant ones; some are not. That's dark and light.
John Crowley
#74. I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.
Marion Barry
#75. If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there
George Harrison
#76. We'll be alone in the hotel. Almost the only guests. You can rest all day and think of nothing, nothing. It doesn't matter who you are or how you got stuck here or where you're going next. You don't even have to move. You lie in the shade. I know you like to lie in the shade.
Anonymous
#77. You have to know what you're doing and where you're going. For some guys, the answer is just keep doing what you're doing. For other guys, that might not be the case. It just depends on what kind you are.
Paul Konerko
#78. Well," he said, "f'r example, if they ask where you've come from, you could say 'Behind me,'and if they asked where you're going, you'd say 'In front of me.
Neil Gaiman
#79. Writing a screenplay is like climbing a mountain. When you're climbing, all you can see is the rock in front of you and the rock directly above you. You can't see where you've come from or where you're going.
Syd Field
#80. The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there.
David Lee
#81. The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.
Michael Bloomberg
#82. Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't
Candace Bushnell
#83. It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.
Samuel Beckett
#85. I don't know where you're going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?
Fall Out Boy
#86. If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.
Wendell Berry
#87. Stop worrying where you're going. Move on. If you can know where you're going, you've gone. Just keep moving on.
Stephen Sondheim
#88. You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.
Norman Reedus
#89. It is very hard to say where you're going until you get there. That kind of thing is based very much on instinct. As a photographer, one of the most important lessons I have learnt is that you have to learn to listen to and trust your own instinct. It has helped to guide me - this far at least.
James Nachtwey
#90. [In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going.
Condoleezza Rice
#91. If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice ... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
#92. Definitions have their uses in much the same way that road signs make it easy to travel: they point out the directions. But you don't get where you're going when you just stand underneath some sign, waiting for it to tell you what to do.
Kate Bornstein
#93. If you don't know where you've come from, how in Heaven's name will you ever figure out where you're going?
Jodi Picoult
#94. What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You don't really have to know where you're going - It's like breathing.
Frederick Lenz
#95. Even if you've no idea where you're going, you have to look like you do. It's what keeps the locals different from the strangers.
Kate Griffin
#96. If you don't know where you're going, all roads lead there.
Laurence Eubank
#97. This is where you're going to tell me you're gay, isn't it?
Dan Skinner
#98. It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.
Anthony Burgess
#99. Be angry with him," Ravenpaw meowed. "That's good thinking, Crowpaw. Thinking like a warrior, in fact. Where you're going, you must trust nothing and no cat without very good reason.
Erin Hunter
#100. Often in films, you have no idea where you're going to be six months from now. And I grew very weary of that. And television, although it wasn't necessarily as creatively diverse as filmmaking can be, it was the lifestyle choice that I needed to make.
Alec Baldwin
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