Direct Quotes · Page 110

Consider Brazilian cosmetics brand Natura, which deploys a direct-sales force of more than 718,000. By knocking on doors, it has established a…

— Martin Lindstrom

In the Einstein way, I can't believe in a universe that doesn't have some sort of prime mover, identical with all of…

— Simon Schama

The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in…

— Anton Seidl

We destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.And your education! Is not that also social, and…

— Walter Ciszek

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

— Henry Watson Fowler

With theatre, you can interpret the most complex play on stage for it have meaning to an audience because you're dealing in…

— Wole Soyinka

Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of weather, lugging…

— Mike Seabrook

We will direct every resource at our command - every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement,…

— George W. Bush

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

— Plutarch

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

— Xander Berkeley

You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.

— Alexander Payne

There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.…

— Sun Tzu

As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the…

— Karl Marx

Converting a classic batch-and-queue production system to continuous flow with effective pull by the customer will double labor productivity all the way…

— James P. Womack

But many researchers operate as if it is their responsibility to demonstrate that video violence has a direct effect on the behaviour…

— Hugh Mackay

Whether I act or direct I ensure that there is a social message attached.

— Neena Gupta

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the…

— Emma Goldman

I say to the Christians and to every missionary on the reservations, you're welcome to have a church here if you can…

— Russell Means

In order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, it's essential to have a great deal of purity.

— Frederick Lenz

Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that…

— Marion G. Romney

I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they…

— Jeff Koons

My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.

— Abel Ferrara

It was something every child knew how to do, maintain a direct and full connection with the world. Somehow you forgot about…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and…

— James Otis