Compass Quotes - Page 9

• Every time you consider a job, you have to check in with your inner compass and say, ‘Does this fit in with how I see what the work is for? Is this going to be something interesting and valuable to contribute to the world?’

  Tom Hiddleston

  Jobs, Interesting, Doe

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• North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.

  Shelby Foote

  Men, East, West

  Shelby Foote (2011). “The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian”, p.128, Vintage

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• I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in
  as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them
  annoy others.

  Robert Southey

  Eye, Littles, Annoying

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• The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Mind, Desert

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• There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.

  Steve Martin

  Inspirational, Night, Goggles

  "L.A. Story". www.imdb.com. February 8, 1991.

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• Your gut is your inner compass.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Guts

  "How Oprah Faced Her Fear of Flying" by Oprah Winfrey, www.oprahmag.co.za. April 2014.

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• Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Men, Should Have

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.4, Cambridge University Press

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• I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.

  Robert Plant

  Names, Trying, Use

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.

  Storm Jameson

  Lying, Men, Earth

  Storm Jameson (1922). “The Clash”

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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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• 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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• 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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• Time confined into blind caves or extended through tunnels, responds to the call of infinity, which teases with its promise of freedom. outside the body, time is a pair of compasses in the hands of eternity, but inside it is a pendulum, fastened to the heart. the heart takes its measure from the lengthening swing of the pendulum surveying what time is left. in its own rhythm time spreads itself wildly here and there and is crippled elsewhere. its unequally distributed weight wounds my body - that is how the particularities of my life are manifest.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Heart, Tunnels, Swings

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• We need more moral compasses and less Sat Navs

  Dean Cavanagh

  Needs, Moral, Sat

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• When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And isolation lulls him with the music of the lie.

  M. L. Stedman

  Dream, Lying, Dark

  M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.

  Terence McKenna

  Kings, Moon, Journey

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• The cross is the foundation of the Bible: If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of the whole volume, you have hitherto read your Bible to very little profit. Your religion is a heaven without a sun, an arch without a keystone, a compass without a needle, a clock without a spring or weights, a lamp without oil. It will not comfort you; it will not deliver your soul from hell.

  J. C. Ryle

  Spring, Oil, Heaven

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• When a thought oppresses you, do not be downhearted, but put up with it in courage, saying, 'They swarmed around me closer and closer, but I drove them back in the name of the Lord' (Ps. 118:11). Divine help will arrive at your side immediately, and you will drive them away from you, and courage will compass you round about, and the glory of God will walk with you; and 'you will be filled to your soul's desire' (Isa. 58:11).

  Pachomius the Great

  Christian, Your Side, Names

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• Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Good Man, Needs

  "On Education" (1867)

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