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:
“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)
“It is not easy to construct by mere scientific synthesis a foolproof system which will lead our children in a desired direction and avoid an undesirable one. Obviously, good can come only from a continuing interplay between that which we, as students, are gradually learning and that which we believe in, as people.”
—Erik H. Erikson (20th century)
“She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from aperients in the direction of the soul.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)