Direct Quotes · Page 24

Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to…

— Anonymous

“Instead of these mild, oblique approaches, we must learn, in such cases, to be irenically direct.”

— Jay E. Adams

This is the greatest wealth we possess: to know how to direct our labors rightly.

— Brigham Young

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

— Xander Berkeley

I stopped doing that [photojournalism] and wrote some screenplays on speculation, because even though I wanted to direct, to direct you need…

— Curtis Hanson

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is…

— Helen Vendler

I'd like to be a better writer, but I have no dreams to direct or do a screenplay. And I'd love to…

— Henry Rollins

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students…

— Jerome Isaac Friedman

“Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of…

— Kamand Kojouri

I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking…

— Mickalene Thomas

When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very…

— Sofia Coppola

5 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all…

— Baldwin Spencer

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events,…

— William Godwin

When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity…

— Leo Tolstoy

The combat exclusion policy was adopted during the Clinton Administration in 1994 and says women can 'be assigned to all positions for…

— Cynthia Dill

For me, the hardest part is getting up and writing, that's the hard part. I always felt like I could teach someone…

— Ben Younger

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go…

— Saul Alinsky

If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this." You…

— Jake M. Johnson

In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street…

— Elizabeth Warren

I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as…

— Cary Fukunaga

Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it.

— Marcia Whicker

When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.

— Patrick Marber

I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry.

— Jason Marsden

I want to direct $10 billion to create a make it in America partnership to support American manufacturing.

— Hillary Clinton

Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

— Guy Debord

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

— Jane Roberts

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

— Rodger Kamenetz

I promise that as a president elected in a direct popular vote, I will try to be the voice of all citizens.

— Milos Zeman

We are trusted, loved and wanted in direct proportion to how we trust, love and want those with whom we come in…

— Richard Hall

The depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience.

— Robert Monroe

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

— Spider Robinson

I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.

— Avan Jogia

My intention was always to direct and writing things just became convenient and happened.

— Jeff Baena

I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.

— Brian Greene

Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct

— Marcel Marceau