Being Directionless Quotes & Sayings

The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen. — Simon McBurney

Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it. — Nathaniel Branden

Whether a carpenter makes a table, or a goldsmith a piece of jewelry, whether the peasant grows his corn, or the painter paints a picture, in all types of creative work the worker and his object become one, man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. This, however, holds true only for productive work, for work in which I plan, produce, see the result of my work. In the modern work process of a clerk, the worker on the endless — Erich Fromm

Although you can download all the productivity apps in the world (and I have), no app will make you care about what you have to do like the Rule of 3. The rule is dead simple:
1. At the beginning of every day, mentally fast-forward to the end of the day, and ask yourself: When the day is over, what three things will I want to have accomplished? Write those three things down.
2. Do the same at the beginning of every week.
The three things you identify then become your focus for the day and the week ahead.
That's it. — Chris Bailey

Hope is the magic elixir that energizes dreams, fuels possibilities, and lets you live beyond the limits of your historical thinking. It is not a promise that something you want will happen - it is an invitation to enjoy the possibility of what you want while you and life negotiate the eventual outcome.
There is never a good reason not to hope! — Michael Neill

Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust. — Ambrose Bierce

It is to be broken. It is to be
torn open. It is not to be
reached and come to rest in
ever. I turn against you,
I break from you, I turn to you.
We hurt, and are hurt,
and have each other for healing.
It is healing. It is never whole. — Wendell Berry

If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated. — Sam Altman

A nice pair of Jimmy Choos never hurt anyone. — Kristin Chenoweth

The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant made you vertiginous with possibility: it didn't necessarily help you grasp those possibilities. I still had no idea what I was going to do. I felt directionless and lost in the crowd. I couldn't yet see how the city worked, but I began to find out. — Hanif Kureishi

Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, just weird sleeping hours. — Ben Mendelsohn

My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward. — Michelle Huneven

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. — Alyson Noel

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform. — Edward Young