Direction

Direction may refer to:

  • Direction (geometry)
    • Relative direction, for instance left, right, forward, backwards, up, and down
    • Compass direction
  • Film direction, the filmmaker who is in charge of the making of the visual medium
  • Stage direction, also called theater direction
  • Writing direction
  • See Alexander technique for Direction, a concept in the Alexander Technique
  • Direction – Social Democracy, a major political party in Slovakia
  • Direction (record label), a record label in the UK in the late 1960s, a subsidiary of CBS Records, specialising in soul music
  • Direction (song), a 7" single by American indie rock band Heavens to Betsy
  • Directions: The Plans Video Album, a DVD video album made of videos inspired by songs from indie rock/pop band Death Cab for Cutie's album Plans
  • Directed set, in order theory
  • Directed graph, in graph theory
  • "Direction", a song by the band Interpol, released as a B-side off the Six Feet Under soundtrack
  • For the guidance and cueing of a group of musicians during performance, see conducting
  • Direction (album) a 2007 album by The Starting Line
  • Directionality (molecular biology), the orientation of a nucleic acid
  • Directions (delegated legislation), a form of delegated legislation

Famous quotes containing the word direction:

    “As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.”
    —Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

    “Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn’t there. If he can’t pretend that, he will look through the object, or round it, or above it or below it, or in any direction except into it. If, however, you force him to look into it, he will at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.”
    —James Agate (1877–1947)

    “The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)