Undirected Quotes

#1. Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present of the natural world: it has no memory of its previous actions, no plans for the future, or underlying purpose.

Henry Gee

#3. One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by the undirected accumulation of practical facts on the other, but rather by a motivated iteration between theory and practice.

George E.P. Box

#4. When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

Willa Cather

#5. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

John Steinbeck

#6. Relationships based on undirected love ... demand a personal ethical obligation to the other, and that extends outward, politically, to the broader society.

Rod Dubey

#7. The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

Michael Behe

#8. Our habits and our institutions, from language to cities, are constantly changing, and the mechanism of change turns out to be surprisingly Darwinian: it is gradual, undirected, mutational, inexorable, combinatorial, selective and in some vague sense progressive.

Matt Ridley

#9. To will is to put your emotion into your desire. Simply wanting is not desire, it is merely an undirected thought with no purpose but to pass the time.

Stephen Richards

#10. I have been challenged by the concept of meditation ... I decided recently to accept the invitation of a friend to experience the sheer silence of meditation-undirected prayer ... I had before only sensed intellectually ... But by going deep into prayer I could almost feel it.

Laurie Beth Jones

#11. Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.

Andre Breton

#12. True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#13. The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence.

William A. Dembski

#14. Regarding "thou mayest":
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

John Steinbeck

#15. If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.

Lee Strobel

#16. The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

Nancy Pearcey

#17. Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

Francois Rabelais

#18. We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time.

Bryant McGill

#19. Struggle is not an option: it's a biological requirement.

Daniel Coyle

#20. I was so happy when I found out I had been drafted by the Yankees. Growing up in Taiwan, I had heard so much about the Yankees but had never even seen them on TV.

Chien-Ming Wang

#21. It is as forbidden as is the illicit fruit of Hades, and yet, even he has eaten from it.

Nely Cab

#22. In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

Jean Giraudoux

#23. So, that was the original Happy Mondays line-up before Bez joined. Shaun Ryder, Paul Ryder, Mark Day, Paul Davis and Gaz Whelan. X, Horse, Cowhead, Knobhead and No Arse.

Shaun Ryder

#24. It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

Robert Wilson Lynd

#25. [Mrs. Ferrars] was not a woman of many words: for, unlike people in general, she proprtioned them to the number of her ideas.

Jane Austen

#26. I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would be so much easier!'

Taylor Schilling

#27. Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

Lucretia Mott

#28. Lately, I've been leaning towards kindness.

- Camille Preaker

Gillian Flynn

#29. There aren't as many roles, and I think there's a lack of openness in casting an Asian character in a leading role or unless they're a stereotype. It's been hard. I've been able to play some non-stereotypical roles, which is great, but I have a lot of Asian actor friends who are struggling.

Kimiko Glenn

#30. If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

Christina Dodd