Trajectories Quotes

#1. I think we live in an era without a predictable career path. Everybody's doing more, doing more at the same time, doing more faster. As such, individual projects can have wildly different developmental trajectories.

Alex Timbers

#2. They were astronomers plotting the trajectories of stars.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity.

Pete Hegseth

#4. The pattern appears so ethereally, that it is hard to remember that the shape is an attractor. It is not just any trajectory of a dynamical system. It is the trajectory toward which all other trajectories converge.

James Gleick

#5. The solution to this paradox (according to Palahniuk) is the theory of splintered alternative realities, where all possible trajectories happen autonomously and simultaneously (sort of how Richard Linklater describes The Wizard of Oz to an uninterested cab driver in the opening sequence of Slacker).

Chuck Klosterman

#6. I have often told people that they need to evaluate their lives by the video, and not by the snapshot. That is, they should not just look at one moment in time, but rather consider trajectories, tendencies, and narrative arc as well.

Douglas Wilson

#7. There is no more individuated being in the system. We only ever have to deal with families of trajectories.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#8. Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

Carl Sandburg

#9. Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they're made of, possibly tag their ears so they're always broadcasting to us their location. In case one of their trajectories head straight for us, we'll know well in advance to do something about it.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#10. There's a sense of trajectories that are extraordinary about a life like this. You can reconnect with people and go back to playing with them after years and years of not even knowing if they're alive.

David Toop

#11. We all give up part of ourselves to be with anyone. Relationships change our trajectories.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#12. I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.

Alan Moore

#13. America's civilization perturbs the trajectories of all other civilizations just by existing.

Walter A. McDougall

#14. What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.

Tony Judt

#15. Hey, chaotic trajectories are just as deterministic as any other kind.

Peter Watts

#16. You always thought you knew where you were headed. But now your life's been interrupted, and these personal goals, hopes, and trajectories are being asked to take a backseat to what God uniquely has in mind for you.

Priscilla Shirer

#17. Every crisis, actual or impending, needs to be viewed as an opportunity to bring about profound changes in our society. Going beyond protest organizing, visionary organizing begins by creating images and stories of the future that help us imagine and create alternatives to the existing system.

Grace Lee Boggs

#18. Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.

Georges Bataille

#19. The greatest satisfaction comes from mastering something that is truly difficult.

Betty Edwards

#20. A yawning repetitiveness as of a man who knows few words but will not stop talking.

John Updike

#21. My words itch at your ears till you understand them

Walt Whitman

#22. Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.

Michael Schumacher

#23. When your actions and top values are in harmony, you feel calm and at peace.

Amey Hegde

#24. If you know about yourself, presumably you know about at least one other person.

Mary Renault

#25. Habitat for Humanity is a cause that is near and dear to my heart. I am proud to be a part of the partnership between Whirlpool and Habitat and appreciate everything these two organizations are doing for the wonderful Nashville community and other communities throughout the world.

Reba McEntire

#26. God, grant me the serenity to stop beating myself up for not doing things perfectly, the courage to forgive myself because I'm working on doing better, and the wisdom to know that You already love me just the way I am.

Eleanor Brownn

#27. Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

T. S. Eliot

#28. Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul. Benjamin Franklin

Laura Frantz

#29. I imagined I was God for a millisecond
And became speechless for a long time.

Dejan Stojanovic

#30. Not the bravest. Or the most daring. In Dr. Moorcraft's words, the greatest secret of the Plankholders was simply that, to the best of the army's assessment, they were the ones who cared about no one but themselves.

Brad Meltzer