Lost Direction Quotes

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

Perpetually doing, without ever tuning in to the center of our being, is the equivalent of fueling a mighty ship by tossing all its navigational equipment into the furnace.

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach

People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.

Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth.

No matter where you're going it's the wrong place.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?

For quite some time, I lost my way, not only business-wise but personally.

Although birds coexist with us on this eroded planet, they live independently of us with a self-sufficiency that is almost a rebuke. In the world of birds a symposium on the purpose of life would be inconceivable. They do not need it. We are not that self-reliant. We are the ones who have lost our way.

Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.

Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.

I voted for George W. Bush, but we’ve lost our way.

I had a goal. I was on a mission. And somewhere along the line I lost sight of what I was supposed to be doing. I got out of my training program.

Republicans didn’t lose their majority. We lost our way.

Experience is the pocket-compass that few think of consulting until they have lost their way.

In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, it could be that I've lost my way.

Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.