I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
- Douglas AdamsI learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David ThoreauI belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk. There is a right way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one. We would fain take that walk, never yet taken by us through this actual world, which is perfectly symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world; and sometimes, no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.
- Henry David ThoreauIf we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
- Buddhist ProverbTo win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
- Henri Frederic AmielIt's time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what's in it for '˜me,' but what's in it for all of us? And when you ask that simple question - what's in it for all of us? - the direction not taken in America could not be more clear or compelling.
- Senator John KerryIt is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
- Thomas PaineIn no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
- Wendell L. Willkie "It was like a huge family. We would do very few takes - most of the time just one, and we would laugh a lot. ... I miss him a lot, of course. He was an adorable, intelligent man."
(Speaking about director Krzysztof Kieslowski)
"I was very impressed by him, and I was full of desire. And because of my needs, I was shocked by his short way of responding sometimes on the set, because he was trying to create something special, he was in his world, and I was expecting he would be like a teacher in class - teaching the actor. I didn`t know the teacher wouldn`t give a s- about me! (laughs). ... When I think about it years after, I think it was a great lesson. I do remember him being generous, money-wise, and when you`re a young actress, you remember the people treating you well, and that meant a great deal at the time, because I had very little money."
(on working with Godard)
