Right Direction Quotes - Page 10

• Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

  Anne Frank

  Relationship, Family, Children

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.191, Bantam

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• Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction.

  Henry W. Kendall

  Moving, Government, Roles

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• I support the Ryan budget plan. I think it’s the right direction on the major points. I can’t say I’ve read all of it, but on the major thrust of what he’s doing, I support what he wants to do with Medicare, Medicaid. The only thing I would do, frankly, as I’ve said publicly many times, I think we should implement a lot of these things sooner than what he’s suggesting.

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, Support, Want

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• Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You have to show up, work hard and prove you can do it faster and better. And find a mentor who will recognize your talent and push you in the right direction.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Hard Work, Cooking, Mentor

  "Diversity, Drive and Determination in the Kitchen" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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• Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Change, Ideas, Effort

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• My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to. Their damp marine weather, blowing in from the southwest, came in the right direction. When the mountains are hidden under a low sky, one might almost imagine oneself to be in Britain.

  Jonathan Raban

  Marine, Sky, Cities

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• Dialogue is good, America used to talk to Iraq all the time. Members of Congress don't have any special skill in weapons inspection. However, if members could be accompanied by weapons inspection experts, that could be a step in the right direction.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Skills, Iraq, America

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  If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

  Russell Brand

  People, Might, Yearning

  "Compilation Of Russell Brand Interviews Proves The Only Thing That Matters Is Love " by Sarah Barness, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2013.

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• Im happy to be a part of the conversation, if more young people are talking about fracking instead of twerking were heading in the right direction. The people that govern us dont want an active population who are politically engaged, they want passive consumers distracted by the spectacle of which I accept I am a part.

  Russell Brand

  Talking, People, Population

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• I might not be able to hold my drink or my man, but what I can hold, is a tune. Point me in the right direction and give me a bloody mic.

  Lindsey Kelk

  Men, Giving, Tunes

  Lindsey Kelk (2013). “Lindsey Kelk 2-Book Bestsellers Collection: About a Girl, I Heart New York”, p.50, HarperCollins UK

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• I believe that I was lucky to have suffered.
  Some people don't realize that in suffering there is great potential, because if you are deprived for any reason.
  Politically, financially, socially or otherwise and if you set your mind in the right direction, you will find that the only way to survive is for you to excel, by being better so you can be treated better.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Inspirational, Pain, Business

  "The Grass is Greener ... On Both Sides". Jordan Business magazine, December 2006.

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• Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction.

  K Hari Kumar

  Moving, Destiny, Doorstep

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• Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.

  Patrick Ness

  Giving, Useless, World

  "Patrick Ness accepts Carnegie medal with fierce defence of libraries". Patrick Ness' acceptance speech at the Carnegie Medal, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.

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• It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

  Adam Yauch

  Real, Teaching, Buddhism

  "Sometimes, you just gotta' shut down". Interview With Amy Green, www.salon.com. 1995.

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• Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

  Plato

  Eye, Giving, Conversion

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.352

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