Change of Direction Quotes

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

The pendulum will swing back.

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in mid-course, stalls, drifts, starts up again. Nothing is ever known, and inevitably we come to a place quite different from the one we set out for.

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road

I believe we need new leadership to put the partisan gridlock behind us, and I promised my constituents I would vote for new leadership.

People have a tendency to do that - to go the polar opposite of what they've done before if they've felt like they've done something wrong.

Where you are today is the sum of every choice you've ever made. If you don't like where you are, start making different choices!

I’ve made the decision to get off the stage.

I had been playing a lot of chess and I wasn't really enjoying it, so I decided to go to college to see what else is out there for me. But after about six or seven months away from the game, I just decided that the whole college life wasn't for me and that's why I decided to come back.

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.

I'm very close to suggesting that Mr. Pitt has now served as long as he can usefully do so. He seems to take his foot out of his mouth only for purposes of changing feet.

Repentance is a realization that what God wants from you and what you want from God are not going to be achieved by doing the same old things, thinking the same old thoughts. Repentance is a decision to follow Jesus Christ and become his pilgrim in the path of peace. Repentance is the most practical of all words and the most practical of all acts. It is a feet-on-the-ground-kind-of-word. It puts a person in touch with the reality that God creates.

Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices, and that it's all coming to an end.

In terms of quantity, we've probably already reached the limit of what's feasible. I think a change of direction may be what's needed.

If you're going down the street and you're going the wrong way, remember - God permits U-turns.

When a team is relegated, a new leader can help turn the page at a club.

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in a Clinton candidacy or whether she really is something unique and has something to offer apart from her husband.

Sometimes when general managers get a new job, they clean house and start over and rebuild and get the players they want in there.

You never know. Say the arena's actually a giant cake-" "Say we move on," I broke in.

I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.

If you get on a roll - good or bad - it's hard to get out of it, but it's not impossible.