I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a journey. Drives are an adventure because I don't plan them too carefully. I take detours depending on how I feel and usually stop and stay at places I like the look of.
History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.
Vladimir Lenin
There's a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isn't always pretty.
The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.
The road to our dreams has many detours.
There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.
Always trust the process. I'm a firm believer in that. You know, you keep your eyes on the destination, and of course there will always be detours, but if you're moving towards it, you will always get there.
We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted.
Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw at you.
You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
There's an infinite amount of possibilities and detours and things that can distract you from actually just performing the song and having whatever emotion that's invested into the song come through in the recording.
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.
Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive.
If you can't say where you're going, you're not going to get there. And I've known all along where I'm going, and sometimes the road takes a few curves that you didn't see, but you've got to stay the path.
Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.
Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.
I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks
Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.
The desire to get from point A to point B in the shortest, most efficient amount of time without ever wandering off path, can mean you miss out on those happy accidents that push you further and faster in a direction you never even considered.
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.
Sometimes it's the detours which turn out to be the fruitful ideas.
