Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong. — Charles Bukowski
Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong. — Earl Nightingale
Short Opposite Direction Quotes
Direction, not intention determines your destination. — Andy Stanley
If pursuing the positive is a negative, then pursuing the negative generates the positive. — Mark Manson
When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. — Steven Wright
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. — Douglas MacArthur
To overcome a desperate situation, make a complete turn in one sudden burst. — Japanese Proverbs
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. — Andy Warhol
Nothing easier. One step beyond the pole, you see, and the north wind becomes a south one. — Robert Peary
It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction. — Stephen Covey
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. — Juan Ramón Jiménez
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. — Heraclitus
Opposite Direction Image Quotes
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
Wrong Direction Quotes
You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience. — Oprah Winfrey
Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection. — Wendell Berry
No matter how many times people try to criticize you, the best revenge is to prove them wrong. — Zayn Malik
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
Being yourself is what will make you survive through anything. If you make music to please someone, it's the first step in the wrong direction. Always do what you believe in, no matter what people say. Only way to go! — Zedd
It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction. — Diane Grant
We don’t know how time and circumstances will change what we want and even who we want to be, and locking our life GPS onto a single target can give us the right directions to the wrong destination. — Adam Grant
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. — Kenichi Ohmae
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction. — Winston Churchill
The fear of The Lord is a brake that stops you when you're in the wrong direction. — Bob Sorge
Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too. — Marilyn vos Savant
Right Direction Quotes
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
Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction, and you will not have to worry about your feet. — Myles Munroe
Of the people, by the people, for the people. — Sun Yat-sen
Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don't allow others to control the direction of your life. Don't allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence.
You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. — Alvin Toffler
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there. — John P. Kotter
I like to step into areas where I am afraid. Fear is a sign that I am going in the right direction. — April Greiman
Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. — Richard Bach
I DECLARE that God has a great plan for my life. He is directing my steps. And even though I may not always understand how, I know my situation is not a surprise to God. He will work out every detail to my advantage. In His perfect timing, everything will turn out right. This is my declaration. — Joel Osteen
One right question asked at the right time can change the direction of our intelligence, and thus change the direction of our life. — Mahatria Ra
Those who take the lead take it by doing three things. First, science to be able to manoeuvre; second, knowledge to be able to heavily invest in education; and third, a very wise leadership with a clear vision and a roadmap to the right direction. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Different Directions Quotes
All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts. — Ajahn Chah
For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction. — David Carson
This new social contract proposes a different country, in which the state does not direct our lives. He who cuts the streets, does not get paid. — Javier Milei
Evolutionary psychology offers a parsimonious framework for understanding which domains are likely to yield sex differences and, if so, in which direction. — Gad Saad
Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development — David Crystal
So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. — John F. Kennedy
Everybody learns differently and everybody gets to a certain point from a different direction. — Stan Lee
Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side. — Hugh Prather
And let us dispose of a common misconception. The complete transmutation of even one animal species into a different species has never been directly observed either in the laboratory or in the field. — Dean H. Kenyon
I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more. — Kirk Hammett
All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centred activity. — U.G. Krishnamurti
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. — C. S. Lewis
True health begins with your thoughts. Thinking about comfort, strength, flexibility and youthfulness attracts those qualities into your life and body. Dwelling on illness, fear, disease and pain does just the opposite. Your work is to notice and change your thoughts and move them in the direction of health and happiness. — Christiane Northrup
I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL. I NEVER DO THINGS THE WAY THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. EITHER I GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OR I CREATE A NEW DIRECTION FOR MYSELF, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RULES ARE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS. — Grace Jones
The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop and think about that, we are recreating ourselves. — Dwight Schultz
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. — E. F. Schumacher
The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race. — Jack Levine
A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other. — Mary Jo Putney
Since the market tends to go in the opposite direction of what the majority of people think, I would say 95% of all these people you hear on TV shows are giving you their personal opinion. And personal opinions are almost always worthless … facts and markets are far more reliable. — William O'Neil
Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions. — Pico Iyer
There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality. — Clint Eastwood
Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted. — Amos Tversky
Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least "deserving" in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty. — Philip Yancey
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. — Jack Kerouac
There are just too many opportunities - and an increasing number of them - to hide systemic, institutional wrongdoing behind legal veils, legal theories, and arbitrary exemptions. I hope that we can start to chip away at this, but it sure looks like society is still sliding in the opposite direction. — Chelsea Manning
That opinion, which supposes personal sanctification to be unnecessary to final glorification, stands in direct opposition to every dictate of reason, to every declaration of scripture. — Sayings
What, then, is light according to the electromagnetic theory? It consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse magnetic disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements, the direction of the electric displacement being at the right angles to the magnetic disturbance, and both at right angles to the direction of the ray. — James Clerk Maxwell
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition. — Stephen Hawking
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions. — George Carlin
The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it. — Dido Armstrong
There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of Abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same - that personally always put me off because at that time my focus was in the opposite direction. — Robert Rauschenberg
The wearing of costly array is directly opposite to being adorned with good works. Nothing can be more evident than this; for the more you lay out on your own apparel, the less you have left to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, to lodge the stranger, to relieve those that are sick and in prison. — John Wesley
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. — Plato
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. — Pierre Charron
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. — Sydney Smith
Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back. — Victoria Chang
The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it. — Paul Ekman
Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in the opposite direction. It doesn't rend, it repairs. It is synthesis rather than analysis. It builds anew rather than revealing the old. In the hands of someone truly skilled,...it is Art. — Gregory Maguire
When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy. — T. S. Eliot
When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe. — Vera Nazarian
The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions. — Wallace D. Wattles
It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court. — John Adams
Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness. — Robert Breault
What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life. — Henry David Thoreau
A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games. — Howard Staunton
What fun it is to generalize in the privacy of a note book. It is as I imagine waltzing on ice might be. A great delicious sweep in one direction, taking you your full strength, and then with no trouble at all, an equally delicious sweep in the opposite direction. My note book does not help me think, but it eases my crabbed heart. — Florida Scott-Maxwell
Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it. — B. H. Liddell Hart
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live. — Bernard Mandeville
It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis. — Arthur Machen
It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current. — Henry Fielding
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