Right Direction Quotes - Page 8

• The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.

  Ellen Goodman

  Children, Artist, Average

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• Well, I don't like the UK. I haven't ever been a fan of the pound (sterling),
  and even though they are taking some steps in the right direction - more so than the US - in addressing some of their problems, I still think they're doing it much too slowly. So, I think that the pound will continue to lose value relative to some of these other currencies. I ultimately expect the pound to rise against the dollar, but that's not the best way to take advantage of dollar weakness.

  Peter Schiff

  Thinking, Weakness, Fans

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• A pathfinder's job is hard enough — blazing trails where there are none, guided by nothing but hearsay and gut. While you're hacking your way through bracken, worrying about lurking beasts, all you can do is hope you had chosen the right direction.

  Justina Chen

  Jobs, Worry, Way

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• Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north...As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.

  E. B. White

  Land, Sky, Car

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• Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

  Alice Hoffman

  Running, Mean, Sometimes

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.44, Penguin

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• She knows where she's going, and what she has to do. She could, after all, find her way to Route 95 South blindfolded. She could do it in the dark, in fair weather or foul; she can do it even when it seems she will run out of gas. It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

  Alice Hoffman

  Running, Home, Mean

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Practical Magic”, p.43, Penguin

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• Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

  Margaret Cho

  Easier, Remove

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• Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.

  Terry Pratchett

  Firsts, Steps, Every Step

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• The funny thing about GPS was it didn’t always send you in the right direction. I knew that if I took a right and took Twelfth instead, I’d get there faster, so I turned right. Ozzy did not approve. “Wut the foock?

  Darynda Jones

  Gps, Funny Things, Faster

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.107, Macmillan

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• In the long run the ideas of the majority, however detrimental they may be, will carry on. The future of mankind depends on the ability of the elite to influence public opinion in the right direction.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Running, Freedom, Ideas

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• Motivation and inspiration energize people, not by pushing them in the right direction as control mechanisms do but by satisfying basic human needs for achievement, a sense of belonging, recognition, self-esteem, a feeling of control over one's life, and the ability to live up to one's ideals. Such feelings touch us deeply and elicit a powerful response.

  John P. Kotter

  Leadership, Motivation, Powerful

  John P. Kotter (1999). “John P. Kotter on what Leaders Really Do”, p.60, Harvard Business Press

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• And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Responsibility, Steps, Turns

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.312, Dial Press

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• He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does him the favor of falling upon it in precisely the right way.

  Lynn Kurland

  Fall, Enemy, Favors

  Lynn Kurland (2010). “Star of the Morning”, p.143, Penguin

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• Have you ever heard of feng shui? (Randy) Yeah. It’s the ‘put the mirror on your door and sleep in the right direction’ bullshit. (Steele)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sleep, Mirrors, Doors

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Bad Attitude”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.

  Chris Christie

  Squares, Government, America

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• Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.

  DMX

  Focus, Energy

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• Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.

  Thomas Frank

  Kids, Judging, Cash

  "Lock ‘em Up — Jailing Kids is a Proud American Tradition" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2009.

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• We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.

  Dave Matthews

  Crush, Leader, Looks

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• Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Creative, Anxiety, Relaxation

  "Joyce Carol Oates Interviews Herself". www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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  I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

  Alice Paul

  Women, Equality, Rights

  "Deeds Not Words" by Bobbie Brinegar, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2016.

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• Anybody that's a Dolphins fan feels they're headed in the right direction.

  Don Shula

  Dolphins, Fans, Feels

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• The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

  Harry S. Truman

  Animal, Race, People

  Harry S. Truman, William Hillman (1984). “Harry S. Truman in his own words: by William Hillman ; pictures by Alfred Wagg”, Outlet

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• I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.

  Lech Walesa

  Decision, Reform, Made

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• A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is formed in the right direction or in the wrong one while he is under the influence of his parents; and they are directly responsible for the shaping and cultivating of that taste.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Children, Reading, Learning

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• They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected...but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.

  Stephen King

  Children, Clothes, Giving

  Stephen King (2014). “Under the Dome: Part 2: A Novel”, p.599, Simon and Schuster

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