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Drifting Quotes

On wandering minds and unmoored moments.

These drifting quotes describe writing as a solitary, meandering process and note how parenting limits the freedom to wander creatively. For related focus, see our Goals quotes.

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

Quotes by Twinkle Khanna

A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.

Quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that...

Quotes by Seann William Scott

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get...

Quotes by Sean Astin

Best Quotes

I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking...

Quotes by Sarah Silverman

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was...

Quotes by Ryan Kwanten

If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in...

Quotes by Ruud van Nistelrooy

This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education.

Quotes by Roy Romer

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

Quotes by Ralph Marston

Go Quotes

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

Quotes by Paul Virilio

A U.S. war with Iran could end with a Kurdish enclave in Iran's northwest tied to Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran's Azeri north drifting toward Azerbaijan, and a Balochi enclave in the south linked to Pakistan's largest province, Balochistan, leaving Iran only...

Quotes by Pat Buchanan

I'd been drifting and in a very self-destructive bent ever since my mother died and as soon as I dealt with the grief, for the first time in 10 years, I had clarity and I realized: 'I need to make...

Quotes by Panos Cosmatos

Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea...

Quotes by Nick Earls

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.

Quotes by Nguyen Cao Ky

Goals Quotes

If the euro becomes a factor promoting Europe's drifting apart, then the foundation of the European project is destroyed.

Quotes by Mario Monti

The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.

Quotes by Mario Cuomo

When I work out at home, I don't have mirrors, and I really like it. When I'm not working out in front of a mirror, I don't have those conversations with myself that I have in the gym, when my...

Quotes by Katie Lee

A lot of times, it's nice to open, because the heat's off you. You just go out and blast your set and say to whoever's going to finish, 'There you go.' Even though when you first start, people are drifting...

Quotes by Joe Cocker

When I finished 'P.S. I Still Love You,' I truly was done with the series. I kept saying the books were two halves of a heart. But I suppose time and space had made me nostalgic, because my mind kept...

Quotes by Jenny Han

Heart Quotes

It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.

Quotes by Harbhajan Singh

Frequently Asked Questions

What does 'drifting' represent in these quotes?
It covers mental wandering during creative work, a nation losing direction after a crisis, and the effect of routine on focus and self-reflection.
Is drifting described as a creative process?
Yes, one quote frames writing itself as a kind of solitary drifting through one's own thoughts.
Do any quotes use drifting in a historical or national sense?
Yes, one describes a country left without clear direction after a major political crisis, comparing the nation to an unsteered vessel adrift.
Does parenting affect this kind of drifting?
Yes, one notes that having a more focused schedule as a parent limits how long an idea can be left to wander unresolved.
How does this relate to Goals quotes?
Drifting quotes describe a lack of direction, while Goals quotes focus on clear intended destinations.

One extends the idea to a nation left without direction after a political crisis, while another avoids mirrors to keep the mind from drifting during exercise. Browse our Best and Heart quotes for more.