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• My belief is that if you grapple with the big changes until you really get them and if you develop an internal compass to steer your marketing and communications, you will be working in a discipline that is more exciting, more intellectually rich, more delightfully complex and ultimately more rewarding than it has ever been.

  James Murdoch

  Business, Communication, Discipline

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• Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either.

  David Levithan

  Cotton Candy, Weapons, Shields

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.26, Egmont UK

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• If you have a moral compass, and you stay with it, people will always gravitate towards you.

  Carol Alt

  People, Moral, Ifs

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• Because a true sense of purpose is deeply emotional, it serves as a compass to guide us to act in a way completely consistent with our values and beliefs. Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.

  Simon Sinek

  Emotional, Numbers, Quality

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• No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.

  Rod McKuen

  Mean, Love Is, Land

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• It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings. Alan Bishop

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Sea, Soul

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Glide Path”, p.37, RosettaBooks

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• They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and pulque, women and men. I will shrug my illusion of shoulders and answer that I am a water woman, not a vessel, not something you can sail or charter. I am instead the tributary, the river, the fluid source, and the sea itself. I am all her rainy implications. And what do you, with your rusted compass, know of love?

  Kate Braverman

  Love, Men, Marijuana

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• We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Powerful, Character, Sea

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.107, Princeton University Press

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• Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Life Changing, Growth

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• The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Understanding, Facts, Unexpected

  Fear and Trembling "Problemata: Preliminary Expectoration" (1843)

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• While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Stars, Eye, Moon

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

  Pliny the Elder

  Business, Men, Mind

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• It signified nothing that the raw, male magnetism that emanated from him probably made compasses malfunction in his presence.

  Gaelen Foley

  Males, Made, Malfunction

  Gaelen Foley (2010). “My Wicked Marquess: Number 1 in series”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• Many things they sawe with us as mathematicall instruments, sea compasses... spring clocks that seemed to goe of themselves - and many other things we had - were so strange unto them, and so farre exceeded their capacities to comprehend the reason and meanes how they should be made and done, that they thought they were rather the workes of gods then men.

  Thomas Harriot

  Spring, Men, Sea

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• He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

  Ann Patchett

  Used, Needed

  Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.229, A&C Black

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• Maybe this isn't the right thing to say, but I want you to know: When you ran for the stage, I've never been so proud of you in all my life. You've always been beautiful; you've always been talented. And now I know that your moral compass is perfectly aligned, that you see clearly when things are wrong, and you do everything you can to stop it. As a father, I can't ask for more. I love you America. And I'm so so proud.

  Kiera Cass

  Love, Beautiful, Father

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• Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Ice, Sea, Stories

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.5, Granta Books

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• The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.

  Samuel Johnson

  Safety, Long, Age

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.68

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• For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived, which yet being striped of that garniture, the ideas shrink into a narrow compass, and are viewed almost by one glance of thought.

  David Berman

  Ideas, Glances, Notion

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• Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Sea, Arriving

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “A Treatise on Painting: "Translated from the Original Italian"”, p.216, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• I'm so grateful that I was raised by a mother who really instilled in me that my moral compass and achievements all had to come from a real place that had nothing to do with my beauty or how I looked. That was very big for her.

  Kristen Stewart

  Mother, Real, Grateful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When there's no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot.

  Sting

  Inspirational, Soul, Pilots

  Sting (2009). “Lyrics”, p.202, Dial Press

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• Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.

  William Ellery Channing

  Men, Compassion, Effort

  William Ellery Channing (1849). “Lectures [on the elevation of the working classes] with selections from his writings”, p.68

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• Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses

  Albert Pike

  Squares, Circles, Justice

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• He that has patience may compass anything.

  Francois Rabelais

  May, Having Patience

  Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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