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Detour Quotes
A detour rarely feels planned, yet these quotes show how often it becomes the more memorable route. From a grandmother's kitchen stop to a decades-long career pivot, the voices collected here treat the detour not as a mistake but as a shift worth noticing. Some describe detours forced by circumstance, others chosen almost by accident, and together they suggest that the straight path is not always the one that teaches the most.
Every detour quote here treats the unplanned turn as part of the story rather than an interruption of it. Readers exploring Change quotes will find a similar thread: the idea that direction shifts on its own timeline.
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By the end of the millennium, despite the continuing excitement of the field, almost thirty years of a detour from chemistry to medical imaging began to pall, and I changed my focus to a field of chemical research, just in time for my past to catch up with me in the form of a Nobel Prize. All detours should be so productive!
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I took a detour to France in my senior year in high school. So that's part of what ended up sending me, actually, to Middlebury because I went to school with people who were more from the Northeast.
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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.
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