Direct Quotes · Page 23

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

— Tite

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

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

— James Taylor

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

We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it…

— Stephen Levine

I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more…

— Michael Bennet

The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.

— Ayana Mathis

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

— Eric Hoffer

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs…

— William Scranton

I think it's very hard to direct foreign language actors, but Carl Rinsch found a great way. A special super visional way.

— Hiroyuki Sanada

My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait…

— Elizabeth Perkins

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or…

— Mel Brooks

I thank the Prime Minister for his remarks about me. Debating with him at the Dispatch Box has been exciting, fascinating, fun,…

— William Hague

The incidence of Alzheimer's disease is growing at a pace like never before, affecting people at a younger and younger age. This…

— Benjamin Creme

Create a life outside of acting work that fulfills you and feeds your soul. Nurture your relationships - family and friends. Stay…

— Melanie Nicholls-King

This is something which I think I have been able to communicate to both people I have taught and people that have…

— Warren MacKenzie

If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts…

— Denis Diderot

Drones are sort of the perfect weapon for a country that doesn't want to go to war. It only - there's no…

— Mark Shields

I like to work with actors that have varied experiences. But I don't choose them because of their experience, I choose them…

— Jim Jarmusch

Some people find the experience and practice of compassion as a spiritual discipline to be a more direct route to the transformation…

— Marcus Borg

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

— Kristin Hunter

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

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

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

— Anthony Liccione

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

— Robert Delaunay

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

— Michelle MacLaren

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

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

The fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing.

— Nicole Holofcener