Direct Quotes · Page 11

There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.

— Anonymous

I was an unremarkable student with passable looks and a direct personality.

— Judy Sheindlin

When asked if direct sales is a pyramid scheme. My reply is a corporation has only one person at the top.

— Donald Trump

Evidence is conclusive that your self-talk has a direct bearing on your performance.

— Zig Ziglar

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

— Marcel Proust

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

— Immanuel Kant

I probably won't direct the stories I am writing but will star in them.

— Satyadev Kancharana

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

— Stanley Smith Stevens

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

We can change the expression of more than 70 percent of the genes that have a direct bearing on our health and longevity.

— David Perlmutter

I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer…

— Joe Mantello

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing…

— John Ford

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having…

— Alain de Botton

That opinion, which supposes personal sanctification to be unnecessary to final glorification, stands in direct opposition to every dictate of reason, to…

— Augustus Toplady

Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did 'Kings and Queen', had this curious idea to think…

— Mathieu Amalric

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture…He takes upon himself…

— Mark Twain

My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be…

— Melissa Rosenberg

When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute…

— E.C. Riegel

The further a device is removed from human control, the more authentically mechanical it seems, and the whole trend in technology has…

— Isaac Asimov

I think I would co-direct because I love actors and I've got a very good eye. I'm not a second-guesser. I don't…

— Lance Henriksen

My preference will always be theatre because it's where my heart lies and it's what I started with and eventually I want…

— Gemma Arterton

As the nature deficit grows, another emerging body of scientific evidence indicates that direct exposure to nature is essential for physical and…

— Richard Louv

Marriage is for committed lovers, not hostages. Marriage is a sacred relationship created for two people who complete each other spiritually. While…

— Rob Jackson

I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish…

— Yann Martel

“But you have to direct yourself out of this thing, not into it. Don't fold up.”

— Don DeLillo

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.

— Eckhart Tolle

The soul has come to the physical realm to have a direct experience of itself as an "individuation of divinity."

— Neale Donald Walsch

To direct a sequel to somebody else's work is not interesting to me.

— Michael McKean

I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.

— Martin Parr

“Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.”

— Shannon L. Alder

You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

— Jack Herer

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

— Thomas Carlyle

I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.

— Pam Grier

Unless you are wealthy, you cannot afford to act or direct one play and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

— Cyrus Broacha

You can learn to direct yourself to be peaceful inside regardless of what is happening with your body.

— Lee L Jampolsky

Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.

— Ezra Taft Benson

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

— Arundhati Roy

I'm very direct, I don't believe in wasting time, in wasting words.

— Deborah Meaden

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

— Bryan Cranston

For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.

— Declan Donnellan