Routes Quotes

• Direction, not intention determines your destination.

  Andy Stanley

  Inspirational, Attitude, Goal

  Twitter post from Jun 29, 2012

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• If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.

  Nat King Cole

  Travel, Way, West

  Song: (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66

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• The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

  John Perry Barlow

  Technology, Censorship, Internet

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• The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

  Errol Morris

  Errors, Understanding, World

  "Belief". Errol Morris' foreword to the book "The Secret Parts of Fortune" by Ron Rosenbaum, www.errolmorris.com. January 2000.

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• The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.

  Daniel Quinn

  Journey, Worry, Accomplish

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.40, Bantam

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• It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Order, Track

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Walden”, p.300, Bibliolis Books

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• I don't believe terror and horror are just vicarious pleasures. I think it routes itself in your mind. It can affect your mind. Look at what's going on in the America today. The violence is just awful and I think a lot of has to do with what they are showing on the movies and television.

  Richard Matheson

  Believe, Thinking, America

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour. A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Rain, Men, Mind

  Tsunetomo Yamamoto (2001). “The Hagakure - The Way of the Samurai”, p.60, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Each man must have his own special route to lead him to God.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Men, Special

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• Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, Happiness, Dream

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route.

  Alexander Suvorov

  Strong, Cutting, Thinking

  "The Basic Principles of Operational Art and Tactics: A Soviet View". Book by V. Ye. Savkin, 1972.

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• We should think about what we mean by literacy. If you say, "He's a very literate person," what you really mean is that he knows a lot, thinks a lot, has a certain frame of mind that comes through reading and knowing about various subjects.The major route open to literacy has been through reading and writing text. But we're seeing new media offer richer ways to explore knowledge and communicate, through sound and pictures.

  Seymour Papert

  Reading, Writing, Mean

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows.

  Neville Goddard

  Feelings, Wish, Attention

  Neville Goddard “Neville's Spiritual Classics”, Lulu.com

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• Because people love music, I feel it's my responsibility to produce more of the music and to get it out to more people, so like I said, If the mainstream route does that without compromising me being happy as a person then that's something I'll do.

  Jhene Aiko

  Responsibility, People, Doe

  Source: earstyle.net

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• I am in an endless journey towards an infinite route, only to find a real world of humanity. This thirst is eternal. I will keep walking, touching every faces I drop through my lens. I will show the world - those unknown stories of sufferings. If a single hand comes to give them a shade that is the real honor of my sweat

  G.M.B. Akash

  Real, Journey, Sweat

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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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• A lot of the routes cornerbacks have to defend are quick underneath routes, so it's tougher to get a chance to track the ball on those.

  Antonio Cromartie

  Track, Balls, Chance

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, People, South Carolina

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1875). “Memoirs of General William T. Sherman”, p.228

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• It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun.

  John Sherman

  Fun, Climbing, Years

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• The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Agony, Our World

  "Let Us Have Faith".

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• The route to the target is more important than the target. We are going to go for the target, but we enjoy the route as well.

  Ilan Ramon

  Safety, Important, Target

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• At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

  Puff Daddy

  Jobs, People, Age

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• I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.

  Henri Matisse

  Work Out, Different, Painting

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• As a general rule, so long as you have any choice at all, you should never route through or peer with the UK under any circumstances. Their fibers are radioactive, and even the Queen's selfies to the pool boy get logged.

  Edward Snowden

  Queens, Boys, Long

  "The NSA and Its Willing Helpers". Interview with Jacob Appelbaum and Laura Poitras, www.spiegel.de. July 08, 2013.

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• I had the unique experience the next day: placing sixteen bolts in a row. It was just blank and there was no way around. But it was a route worth bolting for, and after a time I began to take an almost perverse joy in it, or at least in doing a good job.

  Royal Robbins

  Jobs, Unique, Climbing

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