Different Directions Quotes

• One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

  Robert Collier

  Horse, Moving, Two

  Robert Collier (1971). “Riches Within Your Reach: The Law of the Higher Potential”

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• No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.

  Deepak Chopra

  Running, Morning, Romance

  Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Deepak Chopra (2012). “Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Well-Being”, p.144, Harmony

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• It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.

  Sara Zarr

  Mean, Different, Way

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• We live here and now. Everything before and in other places is past. Mostly forgotten. What could, what should be done with all the time that lies ahead of us, open and unshaped, feather-light in its freedom and lead-heavy in its uncertainty? Is it a wish? Dream-like and nostalgic, to stand once again at that point in life and be able to take a completely different direction than the one that has made us who we are?

  Pascal Mercier

  Dream, Lying, Past

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  Everybody learns differently and everybody gets to a certain point from a different direction.

  Stan Lee

  Different, Certain

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Relief is a great feeling.It's the emotional and physical reward we receive from our bodies upon alleviation of pain, pressure and struggle. A time to bask in the lack of the negative.And yet, think about it—relief is really the status quo, a negation of the suffering, a nothing in itself. It is the way things were before the pressure and struggle began.So, is it a step back? A regression?Or is it an opportunity to regroup, start over, and move in a different direction?Use your moment of relief well.

  Vera Nazarian

  Pain, Moving, Struggle

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• I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

  Ovid

  Desire, Different, Way

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• My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.

  Diego Della Valle

  Children, Father, Real

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• Part of the uprising of Latin America, particularly in the last 10 to 15 years, has been a reaction to [neoliberal regime], and they have thrown out a lot of these measures and moved in a different direction. In earlier years, the US would have overthrown the governments or, one way or another, curtailed them. Now, it can't do that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Years, Uprising

  "Noam Chomsky | On Shutdown, Waning US Influence, Syrian Showdown". truthout.org. October 8, 2013.

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• Every book leaves its mark on you. It might leave you hungry for that kind of book or you may be satiated, and you're eager to read something else. It might send you in a completely different direction. I love that about reading.

  Laila Lalami

  Book, Reading, Different

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I'm just broadening my craft and stretching my skills a little bit in different directions.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Skills, Littles, Different

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• For the first time [with the Bible] - I know this sounds so corny - but I knew love. I had such an empty love tank. I had all the questions to life that didn't make sense. Two and two didn't add up to four. From my father's death - if you loved me, why did you leave me? Why did you kill yourself? And so when this happened, it took my life in a completely different direction.

  Paula White

  Father, Two, Tanks

  Source: culteducation.com

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• To me, the creative inspiration is endless and coming in all sorts of different directions at all times.

  Kreesha Turner

  Inspiration, Creative, Different

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• Actors are pulled in so many different directions that unless you both are absolutely into it through thick and thin and completely sure about each other, it's just hard. I've decided I'll never date an actor again.

  Jessica Alba

  Different, Actors, Thick And Thin

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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• Well, once you get the groove of your life and you sort out the aspects of your life that you prefer, and you’ve performed all your responsibilities as a father and as a partner. And just discovery and the great adventure of having eyes wide open. There’s so much of this beautiful planet that is still actually spectacular and stimulating. There are so many amazing people that you meet along the way. By using my career as the wind in the sails of my adventures, I could see so many things and so many people that I might have missed had my career gone a different direction.

  Robert Plant

  Beautiful, Father, Adventure

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's amazing how flexible the human mind is in terms of jumping into a backstory or an aside. Vonnegut is a great example - it's not a linear story by any means, but somehow your brain is keeping it moving in one direction even though the story is taking you in all these different directions.

  Noah Hawley

  Moving, Mean, One Direction

  "Noah Hawley on the Life Span of 'Fargo,' Ewan McGregor's Dual Role, and Adapting 'Cat's Cradle'". Interview with Gazelle Emami and Matt Zoller Seitz, www.vulture.com. June 23, 2016.

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• Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit-of stepping up, of taking action-more than anything else, will move you in a different direction.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Moving, Different

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• Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

  Stuart Wilde

  Life, Spiritual, Journey

  Stuart Wilde (1993). “More Love: Tender Moments”, White Dove International

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• ...Force yourself to use the optimist's explanatory style: 'The situation is temporary. The effect will be limited, not pervasive. And it's due to external causes.' If you just can't make that work for you, refocus your attention...Turn your attention in a totally different direction for the time being. Replace the distressing thoughts with other ideas. Distract yourself.

  Price Pritchett

  Gratitude, Ideas, Style

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• Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat. They were three-dimensional, and you could approach them from different directions, look at them from different ways, stand them on their heads. You could take them apart and put them back together in a variety of shapes, like Legos. I stopped being scared of them.

  Mal Peet

  Together, Different, Three

  Mal Peet (2006). “Tamar”, Walker Books Limited

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• Twenty-four hours a day one looks for contentment in eight different directions but one must also explore the ninth place, which is to their own body and contemplate within. Within the body are the nine treasures of the Name of the Lord—seek the depths of these virtues. Those blessed with the karma of good actions praise the Lord and become true devotees

  Guru Angad

  Karma, Blessed, Names

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• Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

  Jill Lepore

  Past, Innovation, Different

  "Wall Street Protests: Cash-Roots" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. October 6, 2011.

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• CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

  Robert Novak

  Cnn, Mind Your Own Business, Different

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• What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places--and there are so many--where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

  Howard Zinn

  Future, People, Giving

  Howard Zinn (2006). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.270, City Lights Publishers

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• One of the great things about this genie [from Aladdin] is that when Robin Williams created him, and they created this after him, they were allowed to go crazy and when they had to go find someone to play the role live, they had to find someone who was nutty enough to go in different directions.

  James Monroe Iglehart

  Crazy, Play, Robins

  Source: www.blackfilm.com

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