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Direction Quotes
"No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port."
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"When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction."
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"Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going."
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"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
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"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."
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"The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race."
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"I never direct myself, because I don't like working with me. I would punch me in the mouth if I had to take my direction."
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"No, we'll never get back together. We'll remain friends, but I see her going in a completely different direction than me musically. But she'll end up doing really well if she continues on the path she's on. Because she's doing something very original."
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"Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges."
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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."
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"I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not."
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"And, of course, method is very important as is a high-quality specialist (trainer) working with you to keep you going in the right direction for your improvement and to help create results."
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"I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue."
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"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."
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"Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to."
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"I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me."
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"Well firstly, that points certainly at the need for international standards on biometrics that would move in the same direction so that we can have the same technical requirements."
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"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."
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"They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know."
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"If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction."
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"Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction."
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"I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back."
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"We were grooving, at that point, in the same direction, but remember, Roy Hamilton and myself were going into a path and a direction that had no programming."
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"I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games."
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"You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out."
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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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"Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction."
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"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."
34
"Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it."
34
"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."
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"In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction."
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"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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"There's some end at last for the man who follows a path mere rambling is interminable."
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"I feel like a nuclear missile. Point me in that direction, I'll go."
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"Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons."
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