Wrong Direction Quotes

• I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

  Jimmy Dean

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Sad, Running, Depressing

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• Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Speed, Ifs, Irrelevant

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• It's better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.

  Simon Sinek

  Speeding, Right Direction

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2011

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• Be like the fox
  who makes more tracks than necessary,
  some in the wrong direction.
  Practice resurrection.

  Wendell Berry

  Practice, Track, Foxes

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.174, Counterpoint Press

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• It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational Life, Matter, Headings

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• Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Inspirational, Life, Journey

  "AntiPatterns in Project Management". Book by Hays W. McCormick, W. Scott Thomas, and William J. Brown, 2000.

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• I've talked to many individuals who want to discuss their problems. But they don't really have problems. They have chosen to live in the wrong direction. They don't need a solution. They need a new direction.

  Andy Stanley

  Needs, Want, Problem

  Andy Stanley (2011). “The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Country, People, Choices

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• Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.

  Arundhati Roy

  Steps, Footprint, Swept Away

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.52, Penguin Books India

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• There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Lying, Responsibility, Parent

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Answers, Compass

  "How Oprah Faced Her Fear of Flying" by Oprah Winfrey, www.oprahmag.co.za. April 2014.

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• Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Moving

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• For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn't help.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Car, Fuel, Helping

  Blog of Janusz Korwin-Mikke, April 29, 2009.

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• Occasionally and frequently the exercise of the judgment ought to end in absolute reservation. It may be very distasteful, and great fatigue, to suspend a conclusion; but as we are not infallible, so we ought to be cautious; we shall eventually find our advantage, for the man who rests in his position is not so far from right as he who, proceeding in a wrong direction, is ever increasing his distance.

  Michael Faraday

  Distance, Science, Exercise

  Michael Faraday (1859). “Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics”, p.483

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• Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Moving On, Hands, Important

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

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• What are the prospects for an Arab state serving a leading role comparable to the role that other states place in other regions? There is no obvious candidate. Saudi Arabia has the money but a relatively small population. Iraq was a great potential leader, as a sizable country with great oil resources and a highly educated population, but it went off in the wrong direction.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Oil, Iraq

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• Whoever says Americas best days are behind it are looking the wrong direction.

  George H. W. Bush

  Behinds

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• I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that the cold disorients you and makes you think that down is up and up is down, so you may be swimming, swimming, swimming for your life in the wrong direction, all the way toward the bottom until you sink. That's how I feel, as though everything has been turned around.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fall, Swimming, Thinking

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• As a mother, anyone who has a teenager can attest to being really excited when they have something positive to be putting their energy into. They have so much energy, and it can go in the wrong direction.

  Lea Thompson

  Mother, Teenager, Being Real

  "Lea Thompson Talks THIN ICE, SWITCHED AT BIRTH, the BACK TO THE FUTURE Broadway Musical, RED DAWN Remake and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• We are moving in exactly the wrong direction in higher education. Forty years ago, tuition in some of the great American public universities and colleges was virtually free. Today, the cost is unaffordable for many working class families. Higher education must be a right for all - not just wealthy families.

  Bernie Sanders

  Moving, College, Years

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• The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.

  John Steinbeck

  Mother, Men, Long Ago

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.11, Penguin

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• The very idea that you can pursue happiness, that you can deserve it, that you can demand it, that you have the right to be happy, is foolish. Nobody has the right to be happy. You can be happy, but there is nothing like a right about it. And if you think that it is your right you will go on missing, because you have started to look in the wrong direction from the very beginning.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Thinking, Ideas

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• They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.

  Hugh Shelton

  Firefighter, Fleeing, Knows

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• Prominent Democratic strategists are growing increasingly nervous that the national political environment is not only bad for their side but moving in the wrong direction in the final days before the election, a trend that not only could cost their party control of the Senate but also result in double-digit House losses.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Party, Moving, Loss

  "As Vote Looms, Dems' Challenges Grow" by Chris Cillizza, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 03, 2014.

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