Direct Quotes · Page 14

I'm kind of an all-in person. If I'm going to direct I'm going to take the challenge on.

— George Mastras

The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.

— Dallas Willard

I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.

— Michael Tilson Thomas

“Sometimes the wind will take you, or sometimes the wind will carry you.”

— Anthony Liccione

I love television. Television is a great medium; I'm fortunate enough to direct amazing television.

— Michelle MacLaren

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

— Robert Delaunay

Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.

— Thomas Watson

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

— Charles Eames

We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive…

— Thomas S. Monson

Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for…

— Story Musgrave

The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons…

— Michael Hastings

For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it…

— John Sayles

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would…

— Vikram Rohit Shetty

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing…

— Beth Henley

The new update of 2014-2015 is, of course, the attack of ISIS. But this is rooted in recent history. It is the…

— Yanar Mohammed

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about…

— Kajol

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do.…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

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

The really cool thing is all about being able to take your movie around and show it. It puts you in direct…

— Joe Swanberg

The top group of fundraisers for Mr. Obama raised $457,834 for his 2008 campaign - and were approved for federal grants and…

— Jack Kelly

Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making…

— Michael Ventura

Being an actor helps me direct a little bit, when I do that, which I haven't been able to do that much,…

— Joseph Mazzello

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise…

— Wendell Berry

That's a big responsibility, and the details obsess me. And, also, I no longer feel I have to do the Tonight Show…

— Burt Reynolds

I hesitate to direct even though I feel I contribute a lot on a set.

— Susan Sarandon

What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help.

— Donald Keough

I'm gonna direct, like, a real movie. At least an hour and some change.

— Damon Dash

Your first encounter of the day has a more direct bearing on your attitude for that day than your next five encounters.

— Zig Ziglar

I don't want to direct music videos at all. Any work I do with a camera I'd like to be for a…

— Giuseppe Andrews

All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.

— Adam Smith

My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.

— Penn Jillette

I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director.

— Channing Tatum

Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.

— Thomas Watson

My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.

— Ori Gersht

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

— Chris Hedges

We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate

— Ilya Prigogine

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

— Aaron Sorkin

I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.

— Kristin Hunter

The choices you've made in the past are the direct cause of all your unhappiness today.

— Harold Klemp

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

— Cherrie Moraga