Direction Quotes

It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.

A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.

As if flesh and skin and hands are any match for bullets. As if bones won’t crack in hails of powder and lead. As if rivers of blood are not the direct result of trigger fingers that bend but do not break on “bad days”.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Every time you play for your country, there is responsibility. But when you are captaining, you can say so; you have to lead from the front and make sure the team follows the direction you want them to.

If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

Are you living the life you want or just living the way other people want you to live?

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.

I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.