#detour

The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them. Columbus and America. Pinzón who stumbled on Brazil while looking for the West Indies. Stanley happening on Victoria Falls. And you. Amy Curry when I was least expecting her." I smiled back at him while feeling sharply just how much I was going to miss him. It was almost a physical pain. "I'm on that list?" "You're at the top of that list." He leaned over and kissed me and I kissed back. ↗

— Morgan Matson

#discovery

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#career #detour #difference #done #education

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#alternative #come #course #detour #every

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#dead-end street #detour #failure #street

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#detour #roadblock #take #you

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. ↗

— Albert Camus

#art #detours #first #great #heart

I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#avoid #boulevard #detours #grotesque #having

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family. ↗

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

#american values #around #better #better place #blacks

And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale. ↗

— Kim Novak

#i #lot #meant #meant to be #roads

We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#dream #goal #perseverance #pursuit #dreams