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Quotes About Guidance

All right," said Ford, "just stop panicking!
~ Douglas Adams
looked excitingly purposeful, with large video screens ranged over the control and guidance system panels on the concave wall, and long banks of computers set into the convex wall. In one corner a robot sat humped
~ Douglas Adams
I've been ordered to take you down to the bridge.
~ Douglas Adams
If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a tight corner …" "Yeah?" "Please don't hesitate to get lost.
~ Douglas Adams
When you're young, and just emerging from the four walls of home into the wide world outside, that's exactly when you feel so small, like Arthur Dent, all alone in the universe. That's when you act as wildly two-headed as Zaphod. That's when you really need someone to say 'Don't Panic'. It's the perfect age to mutter a heartfelt 'Oh no, not again,' a phrase so much wiser than today's 'Whatever'.
~ Douglas Adams
Damn it and blast it, he thought, and felt the need of some guidance and advice. He consulted the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He looked up guidance and it said See under ADVICE. He looked up advice and it said see under GUIDANCE.
~ Douglas Adams
Calitatea oric?rui sfat pe care îl are oricine de oferit trebuie s? fie evaluat? raportat la calitatea vieÈ›ii pe care acela chiar o duce.
~ Douglas Adams
Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard, Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in Lynn Valley,and suddenly somebody comes up to you saying, 'Hi, I'd like you to meet Kevin. Kevin is eighteen and will be making all of your career decisions for you.' I'd be flipped out. Wouldn't you? But that's what life is all about - some eighteen-year-old kid making your big decisions for you that stick for a lifetime. He shuddered.
~ Douglas Coupland
In the distance he could see the Cape May lighthouse winking, one short, one long.
~ Douglas Preston
Information is like electricity; it powers the light that allows us to see our way forward.
~ Douglas Preston
Questioner: What's the best thing I can do for my awakening? Adyashanti: Be with an enlightened teacher and listen.
~ Adyashanti
Sincere students find sincere teachers, and sincere teachers find sincere students. The two go together like a box and its lid. (p. 108)
~ Adyashanti
God always strives together with those who strive.
~ Aeschylus
Example is more powerful than precept.
~ Aesop
Example is the best precept.
~ Aesop
The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way
~ African Proverb
Do not antagonize your son! He is of an age to choose for himself. Because his choice is not your choice, do not assume that you must be right. If it is a misfortune—then accept misfortune. Be at hand to aid him when he needs aid. But do not turn him against you.
~ Agatha Christie
You should always pay attention to your instincts.
~ Agatha Christie
Now, I dare say you modern young people will laugh, but when I am in really bad trouble I always say a little prayer to myself—anywhere, when I am walking along the street, or at a bazaar. And I always get an answer. It may be some trifling thing, apparently quite unconnected with the subject, but there it is. I had that text pinned over my bed when I was a little girl: Ask and you shall receive.
~ Agatha Christie
Georges, never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
~ Agatha Christie
I will only ask you to believe one thing. I have faith in myself. I believe that I am the man to guide England through the days of crisis that I see coming. If I did not honestly believe that I am needed by my country to steer the ship of state, I would not have done what I have done--made the best of both worlds--saved myself from disaster by a clever trick.' 'My lord, if you could not make the best of both worlds, you could not be a politician.
~ Agatha Christie
I should hardly advise you to go too much by all I've told you. I'm a malicious creature.
~ Agatha Christie
Do you remember these words: 'What Lamp has Destiny to guide Her little Children stumbling in the Dark? "A Blind Understanding," Heaven replied. 'Geoffrey has that—a blind understanding. All children possess it. It is only as we grow older that we lose it, that we cast it away from us. Sometimes, when we are quite old, a faint gleam comes back to us, but the Lamp burns brightest in childhood.
~ Agatha Christie
Un buen consejo siempre será ignorado, pero eso no es motivo para no darlo.
~ Agatha Christie