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Every stream, every road, if followed persistently and meticulously to its end, leads nowhere at all.
Alan Watts • What Is Tao?
so far as Zen is concerned, the end results have nothing to do with it. For, as we have seen all along, Zen has no goal; it is a traveling without point, with nowhere to go. To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, “To travel well is better than to arrive.”
Alan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
But anyway, yes, this thing will fail, because nothing is being built. Yes, every ideological movement assures us that after the old order is completely torn down, a utopia will arise in its place. Somehow the utopia never seems to arrive. Instead, the supposedly temporary period of pain and sacrifice stretches on longer and longer, and the ideolog... See more
Noah Smith • This Thing Will Fail
Something that's boring goes nowhere. It travels in a circle. It never arrives at its destination.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
Starting points do not determine your end point Our destiny is determined by our actions, not by our origins.
M. Tan • The 38 Letters From J.D. Rockefeller to His Son
- Tolerating Vague Objectives “We don’t know where we are going, but at least we’re making good time!”
Terry Schmidt • Strategic Project Management Made Simple
Sometimes the destination really doesn’t make sense.
Julie Dirksen • Design for How People Learn (Voices That Matter)
Everyone is trying very hard to push it IN THE WRONG DIRECTION!”