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Direction Quotes


"I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie."


"The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic."


"I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction."


"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."


"You never step backwards when you're sure of where you're going."


"I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not."


"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door."


"In order to answer the question "Where am I going?" you must possess decisiveness."


"You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go 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."


"We were kind of caught up in the genre trap. We didn't really have a lot of artistic freedom. They wanted us to go into a certain direction, so they could promote us easier."


"Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly."


"In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction."


"One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed."


"If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction."


"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."


"If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go."


"Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei."


"Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges."


"Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction."


"I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction."


"In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient."



"The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula."


"The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went."


"There's no need to look back. What's behind you is smaller than what's in front you."


"In the second and third debates the jacket has a generally padded shape across a large part of the entire back which tapers inward toward the spine in a downward direction."


"Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward."


"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."


"I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison."



"Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system."
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