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:

    “German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts “beauty.” It tries to be truthful.”
    —Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970)

    “The young ... look into visages dull-eyed, long-toothed, wattle-necked, and chop-fallen, something they have never been and which they cannot imagine ever being.... If it occurs to a young person, looking at us, that this is the direction in which he himself travels, how can he forgive, let alone bear the sight of, us, who constantly bring him the bad news of our own faces, bitter signposts pointing to his own destination?”
    —Jessamyn West (1902–1984)

    “Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)