Compass Quotes - Page 17

• No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California.

  Janet Fitch

  California, West, Matter

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.269, Hachette UK

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• I believe Stoicism can help anyone who takes it seriously and begins to practice it. It will help them flourish because it will provide them with a compass for navigating life, a general, flexible, framework to set priorities, and a set of techniques to achieve serenity and equanimity.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Believe, Priorities, Serenity

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• God is a compass. God is not about who you're sleeping with or, I mean, I don't care about that. It's about loving your neighbor. It's about living a life that's bigger than yourself. As time goes on, societies have a tendency to put themselves on the throne, and that leads to self-absorption and that leads to "life is all about me." And there's not a compass that sends you in a direction where life can't be just about you.

  John Kasich

  Mean, Sleep, Loving You

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't go anywhere. They invented paper, printing, and a written form of their language, but hardly anyone in China was taught to read.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Gun, Chinese, Paper

  P.J. O'Rourke (2011). “Holidays in Heck”, p.143, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We may look great on Instagram, but we're still lonely and depressed and anxiety-ridden. I hope, for the sake of our future generations, that our moral compass stays intact.

  Nelly Furtado

  Lonely, Anxiety, Generations

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Jewels, Age, Disappear

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• The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands far more chance of rising to a position affording him opportunity to exercise his organizing abilities than the fellow who dawdles along without chart or compass, without plan or purpose, without self-improvement and self-discipline.

  B. C. Forbes

  Reading, Exercise, Opportunity

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• A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.

  John Fletcher

  Women, Believe, Night

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Women pleas'd. Night-walker, or, the little thief. Island princess. Women's prize, or the tamer tam'd. Noble gentleman”, p.18

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• My parents were my first bosses - they gave me my moral compass, goals, and first recognition. My dad worked 25 years for Rolls Royce in England. He taught me the value of working someplace where you can make a difference - not chasing money but doing work that you found purposeful.

  Adrian Gostick

  Dad, Goal, Boss

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which especially we acquire readiness in making plans for buildings in their grounds, and rightly apply the square, the level, and the plummet. By means of optics the light in buildings can be drawn from fixed quarters of the sky. Difficult questions involving symmetry are solved by means of geometrical theories and methods.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Mean, Squares, Light

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 4,

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• 'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

  John Wilkins

  Science, Certain, Latitude

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• My hair is my everything: my best friend, my mentor, my moral compass.

  Keith Murray

  Hair, Mentor, My Best Friend

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• All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.

  Mark Hoppus

  Country, Son, Cowboy

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• There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

  Bjork

  Behaviour, Maps, Helping

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• All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that.

  Chris Weitz

  Finals, Looks, Golden

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• …Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the inked fibers of a map, that pure zone between land and chart, between distances and legends, between nature and storyteller. The place they had chosen to come to, to be their best selves, to be unconscious of ancestry. Here, apart from the sun compass and the odometer mileage, and the book, he was alone, his own invention. He knew during these times how the mirage worked, the fata morgana, for he was within it.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Distance, Book, Land

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• I think it's so important as an actor that you hang on to your own inner compass, because so many people want to guide you - 'This is what you should you be doing'. But I want to do different things.

  Michelle Ryan

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

  Anais Nin

  Progress, Encyclopedia, Timelessness

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• Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.

  William Cowper

  Compassion, Tempest, Lost

  William Cowper (1866). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.405

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• Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Political, Politics, Debate

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• The Christian world, I discovered, was like the captain and crew of a vessel on the ocean without a compass, and tossed to and fro whithersoever the wind listed to blow them. When the light came to me, I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Ocean, Blow

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”, p.73

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• I've had phases where the compass point seems lost. It can happen for various reasons, among them, that you're trying to do something outside your skill set; your skills have to catch up with the things you see in your head. But it's important to make all of those paintings, even the failed ones.

  Joe Bradley

  Skills, Important, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I asked a director once what the secret of it all was, and he said you have to be so prepared that you are willing to throw all your preparation away in the moment when you see something better. That's a phenomenal piece of advice. It's been my compass through the process of making films. But you can really only do that if you're prepared. You can't wing it.

  Alex Kurtzman

  Advice, Preparation, Secret

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture and mathematics and engineering and medicine and astronomy, and then that all sort of collapsed. And I was trying to understand how such a intellectually fertile environment can lose its compass bearing. Because I think about the creative centers today - countries, or even regions. Will Silicon Valley always be as innovative? Will the United States be innovative, or will we become complacent?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Thinking, Engineering

  Source: bookriot.com

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• Elie Wiesel has for years served as the moral compass of the civilized world. For many of us, including me, he has defined the Holocaust.

  Hershel Shanks

  Years, Holocaust, World

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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