Direct Quotes · Page 22

This is a business, the direct selling, that bizarrely works best when times are bad.

— Jim Cramer

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

— Peter Jackson

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

— Daisy Berkowitz

During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

— Kevin Pietersen

I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.

— Lynn Shelton

If we do want to bring a woman in to direct a 'Star Wars'... we don't want to talk somebody into it.

— Kathleen Kennedy

Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions.

— Bryan Singer

It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.

— Konosuke Matsushita

I've been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for…

— Gracie Gold

My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My…

— Salvador de Madariaga

You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct…

— Adam Brown

As a matter of fact, wherever I get to is a direct result of where I'm at now which makes where I'm…

— Bryan Kest

I would love to think there is a direct relationship between coffee and genius, but they've done studies, and if anything, caffeine…

— Eric Weiner

We will become mightier and more powerful in our own right in direct proportion to the service and contribution we make to…

— Henry D. Moyle

As an individual learns and practices higher meditation techniques, a tremendous volume of energy and creativity flows through them. If they direct…

— Frederick Lenz

You have to fire yourself as the writer when you direct something you've written. You have to fire yourself, or else you…

— Joel Schumacher

Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich…

— Cheryl Strayed

I think if I have one message, one thing before I die that most of the world would know, it would be…

— Virginia Satir

The principle of self-reliance grows out of a fundamental doctrine of the Church, that of agency. Just as each individual is accountable…

— Marion G. Romney

I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can…

— Richard P. Feynman

I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six…

— Ken Burns

It's not publicly known, but antivirus companies co-operate all the time. On the surface, antivirus vendors are direct competitors. And in fact,…

— Mikko Hypponen

I do engage veterans. I meet with the veterans' service organizations monthly. It's a direct, no-holds-barred discussion. I travel to their conventions,…

— Eric Shinseki

I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same…

— Alan Ball

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a…

— Bill Bryson

The same person is coming through in a different medium… My art is simple, direct and definite.

— Grace Slick

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.

— Clint Eastwood

You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.

— Jesse Jackson

Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.

— Orrin Woodward

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

— Gabriel Lippmann

The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the expectations of your peer group. Choose your peers wisely.

— Tony Robbins

Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.

— Frederick Lenz

Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.

— John Paul Caponigro

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

— Beverly Sills

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

— Serj Tankian

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

— Calvin Coolidge

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.

— Tinashe

I'm going to write films, star in films, direct films. Write records. Perform live.

— Michael Pitt

I am very straight-forward and direct. If I disagree with something, I say something about it.

— Simon Baker