
“It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.”
Source: Quest for prosperity: the life of a Japanese industrialist. 1988, p. 47
“It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.”
Source: Quest for prosperity: the life of a Japanese industrialist. 1988, p. 47
Variant: The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
“Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.”
World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird (2014) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KkYtBgAAQBAJ,
"Romano Drom" in Dreams Underfoot : The Newford Collection (2003), p. 118
“Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.”
“Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere”
Source: The New Life
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 148
Toynbee, cited in: Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Edward DeLos Myers (1955) A study of history. Vol. 7. p. 388