Direct Quotes · Page 15

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

— James Taylor

With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would…

— Theodore Bikel

There's a direct correlation between positive energy and positive results.

— Joe Rogan

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

— Ted Kotcheff

I want to be involved in lots of different things. I want to write and direct, and I make music.

— Esme Creed-Miles

If I choose to direct something, it's because I don't think it would get accepted.

— Steven Knight

In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.

— Phil Cousineau

There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I…

— David Hurn

Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so…

— Laura Wade

In 2009 we increased the cash in Quinn Direct as we had in 2008. We increased the cash in it in 2010.…

— Sean Quinn

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,'…

— Aaron Sorkin

I am very direct, to the point that I think I might make people uncomfortable! I do not know how not to…

— Freida Pinto

There are over 2,000 direct clones of the Groupon business model. However, there's an equal amount of proof that the barriers to…

— Andrew Mason

A teacher will alter the balance of power by actually lifting a person into other states of mind. In those states of…

— Frederick Lenz

I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what…

— Melissa Rosenberg

Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely…

— Jeanette Winterson

As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural…

— Martin Filler

When we see the need for deep change, we usually see it as something that needs to take place in someone else.…

— Robert E. Quinn

The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They…

— Gore Vidal

We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat…

— Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an…

— Elon Musk

The park lies directly downwind from a slew of coal plants. Virtually all of the major contaminants in the local air and…

— Wil S. Hylton

Cristiano is direct and forceful, and has this fascination with goals.

— Tite

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

— Anonymous

When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.

— Gaspard Ulliel

It's hard for me to fall in love with a piece of material enough to want to direct it.

— Sydney Pollack

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

— Nick Lowe

There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is badly needed.

— Bradley Byrne

I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.

— Eckhard Pfeiffer

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

— Walter Lippmann

In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.

— Dante Alighieri

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

— Betty Rollin

They've said I want to direct pictures. I couldn't direct traffic.

— Marilyn Monroe

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.

— Claire Danes

Direct your mind where you want it to travel instead of always going for the ride.

— Kris Carr

I know it's a stock answer, but besides acting, I'd love to produce and direct.

— LaTanya Richardson

As I grow and get older, mature a bit, and work on my big boy voice a little bit, I definitely want…

— Michael B. Jordan