'take different directions' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about two or more people, ideas, or things being divided or not continuing in the same way. For example, "The two branches of the family have decided to take different directions in their lives."
But should such precautions fail, the available choices take different directions along gender lines.
It's kind of like certain relationships: you grow apart, your lives take different directions and there's nothing much left to talk about … but you keep hanging around with each other because change would require work.
Rushdie says that this steady thrum of echoes gives Auster's works an over-arching coherence: "There are certainly repetitions in his books, such as dislocation; intrusion of the unknown; an exploration of how lives can take different directions, and so on, so regardless of the technical variation, the constant themes make them identifiably Paul Auster novels.
Our approach allows the investigation of the effect of combinations of background variables on the decision to have an abortion, which may take different directions as the process unfolds, and helps to explain phenomena such as the inverted-U shape of abortion with age.
However, if they take different directions, it is called "divergence".
The influence of these kernels take different directions as it is illustrated by the interpolation functions.
Talent agencies in the last year have taken different directions in their approach to new media.
"I think we took different directions in life, but I certainly feel a kinship.
And there might be nights when I make the connection and it takes different directions.
By the final time they met as juniors - in the fall of 1977 - the players' skills had taken different directions.
Harmon, 36, said they fit together like "puzzle pieces". But in the past couple of years, their lives took different directions -- Lennon got married and so did Johns, for the second time -- and they saw less of one another.
