Compass Quotes - Page 12

• I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.

  Julio Cortazar

  Night, Mind, Hopscotch

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.53, Everyman's Library

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• I think that maps showing platform details would be useful to visitors, especially to chaperones of school groups, etc. Also useful would be either a compass rose or an arrow pointing North at every metro exit. Emerging from underground is disorienting, especially at night.

  Robert James Thomson

  School, Night, Thinking

  "Dr. Gridlock" with Robert Thomson, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• I am a mystic and am directed by an internal compass. I am not outer-directed.

  Diane Wilson

  Mystic, Internals

  "Reprise: Diane Wilson - An American Hero". Interview with Kelpie Wilson, www.kelpiewilson.com. March 28, 2006.

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• My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.

  Michael Biehn

  Swings, Violence, Moral

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• The vision is true north for the soul. It is a permanent, intuitive compass direction for a human being. Every person inevitably strays from the path. Life is an endless experiment and course correction. The vision brings one back to the true path.

  Thomas G. Bandy

  Soul, Vision, Path

  Thomas G. Bandy (1998). “Moving Off the Map: A Field Guide to Changing the Congregation”

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• A compass is narrow-minded-it always points to the magnetic north... We must discipline ourselves, personally, to fight any deviation from the course Jesus set for us. We cannot be tolerant of any other course.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Fighting, Discipline

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• No one can dictate purpose to another. We discover it for ourselves. Typically leaders know what makes them tick so they do have a purpose, be it to advance their career, achieve some wealth, and be recognized for their efforts. Where they need help is reminding themselves of why they chose their career and their company. They also need to decide periodically if they need to do something new and different. Purpose is an inner compass that points us in the right direction.

  John Baldoni

  Effort, Leader, Different

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• [I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subject; it is well known, that the language and the notions proper to his own profession are infused into every subject, and all things are measured by the rules of navigation: and if he should take it into his head to philosophize concerning the faculties of the mind, it cannot be doubted, but he would draw his notions from the fabric of the ship, and would find in the mind, sails, masts, rudder, and compass.

  Thomas Reid

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• We all have our convictions formed by different things and mine are informed by my faith.... They're formed by the word of God, and I found that to be an anchor for me, a compass, and a guide for me. When people start bullying one another and calling each other names for those different convictions, then I think you get into problems.

  Kirk Cameron

  Bullying, Thinking, Anchors

  "Kirk Cameron tells 'Today' he's not a bully, says he loves 'all people'" by April Daley, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2012.

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• Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't let others define you. Don't let advertisers mold you; don't let zealots ensnare you; don't let conventional wisdom trap you....you are part of a much larger whole.

  Denis Hayes

  Jobs, Car, Casting

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• Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions.

  Russell Hoban

  Memories, Arrows, Way

  Russell Hoban (2012). “Amaryllis Night and Day”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Prayerless leaders are like ship captains without compasses; they can make their best guess at which direction to go, but they have no assurance they are heading the right way. Prayer keeps leaders focused on the one absolutely consistent factor in life - God.

  Henry Blackaby

  Prayer, Leader, Way

  Henry Blackaby, Henry T. Blackaby, Richard Blackaby (2011). “Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda”, p.221, B&H Publishing Group

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• My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places.

  Jamel Shabazz

  Cameras, Different, Different Place

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few years ago, I left my job as host of the television show Extra. Our parting of ways was completely amicable; they were amazing to me. I had spent over a quarter of my life at that job, and without it, I felt like I had lost my compass. People didn't know how to introduce me anymore, because in L.A., you are your job.

  Dayna Devon

  Jobs, Years, People

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• Lois pursues the truth no matter what sort of adversity faces her. I think Superman sees that, and it's the same moral compass that he has from the Kents.

  Jim Lee

  Adversity, Thinking, Matter

  Source: www.ign.com

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• It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Perspective, Political

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• "Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Ironic, Moral

  "Writing Lessons From the Madly Prolific Joyce Carol Oates". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. September 10, 2016.

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• When reviewing my novel Dreams of the Compass Rose for the Magazine of F&SF, master fantasist Charles de Lint called it "engaging and resonant, creating a new mythology that feels so right one might be forgiven for thinking that it's the cultural heritage of some forgotten country or people that have been lost to history." This of course I take as the highest compliment, since it was indeed my sincere intent.

  Vera Nazarian

  Dream, Country, Thinking

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• I must admit that I do have a particular soft spot for the character of the chameleon-trickster goddess Ris in Dreams of the Compass Rose. Ris has gone through the whole spectrum of personal change and has had the longest road of all. And in the end she chooses to come back to the world, to guide, and to help, and to open the eyes of those who are suffering. In that is her true strength and humorous wisdom. I really do like her a whole lot.

  Vera Nazarian

  Dream, Humorous, Character

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• We have become so addicted to our greed-driven habits that we have lost our moral compass and don't know what is right and wrong.

  Sharon Gannon

  Greed, Moral, Habit

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• By using your heart as your compass, you can see more clearly which direction to go to stop self-defeating behavior. If you take just one mental or emotional habit that really bothers or drains you and apply heart intelligence to it, you'll see a noticeable difference in your life.

  Doc Childre

  Hate, Heart, Emotional

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• It's really fun working on this Marvel movie [ Spiderman]. The essentials of Aunt May are that she's helped raise Spiderman and she's his moral compass.

  Marisa Tomei

  Fun, Aunt, Essentials

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Running, Men, Ethics

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• I believe that one of the reasons Gravity Falls is such an unusual place, maybe part of the reason that the stoplights switch on and off at random times and cell phones don't get proper reception and compasses spin wildly - is because of the strange kinetic influence of the UFO buried just underneath everyone's feet.

  Alex Hirsch

  Believe, Fall, Phones

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.

  Taryn Manning

  Spiritual, Grateful, School

  Source: www.esquire.com

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