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Your Quotes for 17 July 2005 - Direction

Douglas Corrigan flew nonstop from California to New York in a dilapidated Curtis Robin, then filed a flight plan for Ireland. Aviation authorities turned him down. So, on this day in 1938, he took off to return to California and mysteriously got turned around in the first cloud he came to, happily arriving in Ireland of all places. Nobody believed his story and he lost his license for a time, but "Wrong-Way" Corrigan was a hero in New York when he returned.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
     - Denis Waitley

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
     - Dr Samuel Johnson, 1709 - 1784

If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.
     - Mildred McAfee

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
     - Walter Savage Landor, 1775 - 1864

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
     - Wystan Hugh Auden, 1907 - 1973

A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
     - Henry Louis Mencken, 1880 - 1956

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