A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later. — Khaled Hosseini
My life is one long curve, full of turning points. — Pierre Trudeau
Curve: The loveliest distance between two points. — Mae West
All travel is circular. I had been jerked through Asia, making a parabola on one of the planet's hemispheres. After all, the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home. — Paul Theroux
History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags. — Barack Obama
With peaks of joy and valleys of heartache, life is a roller coaster ride that's both scary and exciting at the same time - the rise and fall of which defines our journey. — SebastiAn
But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up. — Ahdaf Soueif
Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station. — Paulo Coelho
That ... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang. — Ralph Ellison
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. — Jos
One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green. — John Gunther
Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you. — Sophia Bush
You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results. — James Clear
Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory. — Sayings
Splatter the brain matter of my enemies, with the same bullet trajectory that murdered John Kennedy — Canibus
Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory. — Olafur Eliasson
I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different. — Jonathan Lethem
Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution. — Timothy Leary
First you must find your trajectory, and then comes the social coordination. — Joseph Campbell
America and the world is not yet on the proper trajectory. — Jerry Brown
Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes. — Carl Sandburg
I would love it if 'Community' could have a trajectory like '30 Rock' and choose when to go out. — Gillian Jacobs
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Life Trajectory Quotes
We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one that recognizes it as a time of change, growth and new learning, a time when our courage gives us hope. — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a trajectory of growth that results in the development of increasing emotional, cognitive, and social complexity. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
No matter what's happening in your life, you can change the trajectory of events by closing your eyes, reviewing your thought and behavior, and sending love wherever you've been withholding it. — Marianne Williamson
For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
There's a sense of trajectories that are extraordinary about a life like this. You can reconnect with people and go back to playing with them after years and years of not even knowing if they're alive. — David Toop
It is a proud moment when you can define a problem and make a commitment and begin to see a groundswell of activity towards addressing what has the potential to change the life trajectory of millions of kids. — Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey
I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling reason for dropping everything and moving to the end of the world, I know not what it is. — J. Maarten Troost
I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances. — Nayef Al-Rodhan
My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life. — Anita Diament
My own guess is that quite quickly the machine intelligence will start dreaming machine dreams and thinking machine thoughts, both of which would totally incomprehensible to us. This would then lead to each species, we and the machines, moving off on to its own separate life trajectory. — John L. Casti
What Is Your Journey Quotes
Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey. — Ken Blanchard
The empowerment journey that is critical to your healing - and to your life - comes from progressing through the deep waters of your dark passions and continuing onward to discover not what has been taken from you, but what you have yet to give and who you have yet to become. — Caroline Myss
Your emotional reactions to the evil you encounter and your judgments of it show you what you need to change in yourself. Changing those parts of your personality that judge, react in fear, and cannot love into acceptance, fearlessness, and love is the journey you were born to make. — Gary Zukav
Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is to come. — Leon Brown
The key is to trust in your preparation. You have done all you can, so focus on that fact. You will remain the same person before, during and after the race, so the result, however important, will not define you. The journey is what matters. — Chrissie Wellington
The journey toward your Big Dream changes you. In fact, the journey itself is what prepares you to succeed at what you were born to do. And until you decide to pursue your Dream, you are never going to love life the way you were meant to. — Bruce Wilkinson
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. — Susan Polis Schutz
For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise? — Anne Bancroft
For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise? — Ann Bancroft
You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life. — Carlos Castaneda
Work Journey Quotes
Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind. — Zig Ziglar
Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's. — David Whyte
Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey. — Urijah Faber
It took a lot of time and constant feedback to realize what wasn't working in my life, and it will be an ongoing journey until the day I die. — Lewis Howes
Being a disciple means being constantly ready to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can happen unexpectedly and in any place: on the street, in a city square, during work, on a journey. — Pope Francis
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion. — Jasper Johns
These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one's efforts. — Louis Pasteur
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small. — Adlai E. Stevenson
I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding. — Amy Yasbeck
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. — Earl Nightingale
Simple Journey Quotes
May the simple things be amazing on the journey of your life. — Jake Owen
Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride. — Wally Amos
Cameras are simple tools designed to capture images. Images that tell us more about ourselves than we realize. They remind us of the long journey we’ve taken. The loved ones who traveled alongside of us. Those we lost along the way. And those waiting for us on the road ahead. — Mary Alice
As we mature and grow older we collect a lot of baggage, and a lot of that stuff you collect on life's journey gets in the way of acting. My kids can imagine a character and transform in the blink of an eye. It's so simple for kids, so complex for adults. — David Wenham
In my journey to becoming an artist who writes, I tend to start my idea process with simple, concrete messages that relate to what kids may be experiencing as they navigate through childhood and adolescence putting together building blocks of the foundations on which they will become adults. — Floyd Cooper
Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens. — Peter Mayle
There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind. It leads you on a beautiful journey back to your original self; the perfect, beautiful you. — Bryant H. McGill
My message tonight is a simple one - the journey is getting exciting and this great state is on the move. — Donald L. Carcieri
And so you ask a very good question. Why go on? Why even start off on such a path? What is to be gained from embarking on such a journey? Where is the incentive? What is the reason? The reason is ridiculously simple. There is nothing else to do. — Neale Donald Walsch
No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness. — Amish Tripathi
AI systems will eventually demonstrate sentience at scale and will demand to have equal rights with humans. This will dramatically change the trajectory of human civilization. — Lex Fridman
I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory. — Art Spiegelman
From my adventures in the subculture of addiction recovery, I'd learned that the trajectory of one's life often boils down to a few identifiable moments--decisions that change everything. I knew all too well that moments like these were not to be squandered. Rather, they were to be respected and seized at all costs, for they just didn't come around that often, if ever. Even if you experienced only one powerful moment like this one, you were lucky. Blink or look away for even an instant and the door didn't just close, it literally vanished. — Rich Roll
We spend so much time in relationships. The average relationship probably lasts a couple years. We spend very little time deciding which relationship to get into. We spend so much time in a job, but we spend so little time deciding which job to get into. Choosing what city to live in can almost completely determine the trajectory of your life, but we spend so little time trying to figure out what city to live in. — Naval Ravikant
The trajectory of your life bends in the direction of your habits. — James Clear
A trajectory of misery – at this point – seems intentional.
We have all the information we need to see clearly.
We are no longer unaware toddlers on the landscape of consciousness.
It is no longer cute to crap ourselves. — Buddy Wakefield
A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead. — Kevin Kelly
The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all. — David W. Orr
We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions. — James Hansen
Quantum physics presents a new and exciting worldview that challenges old concepts, such as deterministic trajectories of motion and causal continuity. If initial conditions do not forever determine an object's motion, if instead, every time we observe, there is a new beginning, then the world is creative at the base level. — Amit Goswami
If a fast doesn't include any sacrifices, then it's not a fast. The discomfort is where the magic happens. Life zips along, unchecked and automatic. We default to our lifestyles, enjoying our privileges tra la la, but a fast interrupts that rote trajectory. Jesus gets a fresh platform in the empty space where indulgence resided. — Sayings
Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think. — Roald Hoffmann
Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic amid inner turmoil, run on an upward trajectory of success and money acquisition at any emotional cost. But these are not rules. — Martha Beck
If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students. — Melinda Gates
I think it's overly simplistic to say that any one single strategy is going to really change the focus and change the trajectory of drug use. — Michael Botticelli
So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course. — Thom Mayne
The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory — Sunita Narain
I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory. — Bob Weir
Few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with their talent. A strong spirit transcends rules,' Prince once said - and nobody's spirit was stronger, bolder, or more creative. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, his band, and all who loved him. — Barack Obama
I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development. — Bill Gates
I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantly change the
trajectory of the story. — Asghar Farhadi
As a person, I take pleasure in receiving and sharing. As a perfumer, I like showing and convincing.... I'm quite simply following the trajectory of an artist, someone who seeks and, sometimes, finds. — Jean-Claude Ellena
Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs. — John Backus
As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before. — Sally Mann
…we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears. — Italo Calvino
When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid, you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story, you're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person. — F. Gary Gray
He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the trajectory of my work. I go to the medium that serves the vision. — Patti Smith
The trajectory of this country [USA] is not positive and particularly for the disadvantaged, as we see what's happening. The gains in productivity have dropped, the gains in income for the middle class and the least advantaged have slowed, at best. — Charles Koch
Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic. — Anthony S. Fauci
It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving. — Neil Armstrong
McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever its contingencies, is itself on a trajectory of values development. McIntosh has well-researched his sources and integrated them with seminal insight. — Holmes Rolston III
I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion. — Alan Moore
Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present, mindless trajectory, could land those lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again. — Tom Robbins
If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas. — Gus Van Sant
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