Giving Directions Quotes

• The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. "Half a mile." "Fifty yards." Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say "Thirty-six C." Or "Let's try it in the next size up." But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.

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  Marian Keyes

  Men   High Heels   Sea  

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• When the child sees the parent looking for something, it is as natural for it also to look for the object and to give it over when it finds it, as it was, under other circumstances, to receive it. Multiply such an instance by the thousand details of daily intercourse, and one has a picture of the most permanent and enduring method of giving direction to the activities of the young.

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  John Dewey

  Children   Giving   Parent  

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.24, 谷月社

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• What's interesting, is that I've found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.

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  Aaron Sorkin

  Giving   Interesting   Sound  

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Coach Hedge grunted like he was pleased to have an excuse. He unclipped the megaphone from his belt and continued giving directions, but his voice came out like Darth Vader's. The kids cracked up. The coach tried again, but this time the megaphone blared: "The cow says moo!

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  Rick Riordan

  Kids   Voice   Giving  

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• When giving directions to Joe Garagiola to his New Jersey home, which is accessible by two routes: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

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  Yogi Berra

  Funny   Home   Two  

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• We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot

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  Alan Watts

  War   Thinking   Giving  

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

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  Yogi Berra

  Funny   Happiness   Baseball  

  Yogi: It Ain't Over (1989)

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• Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.

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  Gregory Maguire

  Giving   Wicked The Musical   Lost  

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• Sometimes we can make everything a little too perfect. I always was a fan of giving direction, but every now and then going, "I don't know. What do you think? Let's see what happens."

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  Dan Scanlon

  Thinking   Giving   Perfect  

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.

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  Simon Sinek

  Differences   Giving   Giving Directions  

  "There Is a Difference Between Direction and Directions" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.

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  Simon Sinek

  People   Giving   Guy  

  Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last Deluxe: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.22, Penguin

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• The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

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  Chanakya

  Education   Flower   Wind  

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