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"In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west."
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"It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you've been told it's supposed to be moving in."
"I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me."
"Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction."
"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
"You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself."
"I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not."
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
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"He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles."
"She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death."
"The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control."
"Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center."
"I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead."
"I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps us working. In the case of the chariot, although it's been sold I actually still have it, just in another form."
"In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us."
"As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot."
"The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising."
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