Oneohtrix Point Never

Growing up, I wanted to write films and make films. Even as I took this detour and stayed in the music world, I still think in terms of 'What is in this room? What is the shot? Who are the characters? What is the conversation here?' My sense of pacing is very filmlike, it's not musical.

American Musician

Jess Walter

I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.

American Author

Russell M. Nelson

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

American Clergyman

Gloria Vanderbilt

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

American Designer

Sarah Jessica Parker

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

American Actress

Lynn Good

If you can, anticipate that life is going to be full of detours.

American Businesswoman

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

Greta Gerwig

I'm interested in long careers where you take detours.

Zig Ziglar

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Kurt Warner

American Athlete

Detour implies an unexpected route, not the planned one.

Sudden Change

A detour is usually a temporary change in direction.

Temporary Route

Detours can be pleasant, like a scenic drive, not just inconvenient.

Not Always Negative

When you detour, you actively choose a different path.

Active Avoidance

Detouring requires a conscious action to change direction.

Deliberate Decision

Detours can sometimes provide a quicker route.

Not Always Longer

In legal and technical jargon, detour reflects an unintended route.

Unintentional Obstacle

Legal detours often lead to disputes or contractual issues.

Cause for Dispute

Career or life detour metaphorically describes a change in progress.

Metaphorical Direction

Detours in life or career may offer new experiences and growth.

Opportunity for Growth

 PhD in neuroscience why are you writing fiction once again I was facing total failure but this time I didn't see it that way reframing failure as a detour instead of a dead-end has led to my every success since so I said to that last agent who rejected my book that I planned to self

What would you do if...

 little dudes make it it may be a little sue fixed and engineered along the way but it's working you should say yes because Rick was a big help are there little roadblocks yeah there's a little roadblocks but I gotta just create a detour you know it's not that I

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 And this is important because if you do start to experience some pathology, that is sort of, pre-Alzheimer's, or if you start to get Alzheimer's, you actually have a lot of reserve. You have back-up connections that can dance around any problems or detours.

How Your Memory Works --...

 You've forgotten me forever. But what if you had learned more about me? Let's say you learned four things about me. Now imagine you have Alzheimer's, and three of those synapses are damaged or destroyed. You still have a way to detour the wreckage.

What You Can Do to...

 But what if we could anticipate a supernova before its light reached us? That may seem impossible. After all, nothing travels faster than the speed of light, right? As far as we know, yes. But in a race, fast doesn't matter if you take a detour

How to detect a...

 But Rafidah's kindness proved to be the pattern for that year. Time and again, people went out of their way to help me. Some took on research on my behalf, and others made detours on holidays and business trips to go to bookshops for me.

My year reading a book...

 he made a circuit of a trail, the sandwalk that he'd built behind his house. A productive path can be physical, like Darwin's, or a virtual one, or an unforeseen detour from a path we had laid out. Too much efficiency can weaken itself.

The paradox of...

 OK, like, a lot of shining awards. I believed that hardships were only detours on what I was certain would be my long, long life. As is this case with many of us, it's a mindset that served me well.

"Everything happens for...

 colonies. Well, we're back again, Yeah, back on the island Before we get to the sea bird cliffs. I want to make a quick detour to see the old military barracks,

Finding Baby Seals on an...

 and I could go anywhere. For the first time in my life, I felt free, independent and completely in control of my life. That is, until my life took a detour.

Detour

Sudden Change

Temporary Route

Not Always Negative

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