Direct Quotes · Page 28

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

— Elia Kazan

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

— Brian Tracy

Surprisingly, fish works great for sheet pan dinners because it cooks quickly through direct pan contact.

— Chris Morocco

The only way to improve a trick is to find a simpler and more direct way of doing it.

— Paul LePaul

When I began to direct, I discovered that I was much more comfortable than I was acting.

— Phyllida Lloyd

What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.

— Simon Sinek

How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.

— Paulo Coelho

I've always wanted to direct and as I grow and I get older and I get older I just want to let…

— Michael B. Jordan

I believe Jack Smith might have written THE BOOK on writing and revising for publication. Clean, direct, succinct--a book that is full…

— Virgil Suarez

Tension can be useful, exciting, flirtatious, strength-building, or destructive. Put yourself in charge of how you direct it.

— Tara Stiles

I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can…

— Peter Hedges

Talking about the show reminds you of things that you went through. So it's fun. When the show was on, I couldn't…

— Colm Meaney

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did,…

— Sean Penn

To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most…

— Seamus Heaney

Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.

— Kirkpatrick Sale

There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended…

— Denis Waitley

The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without…

— Anonymous

Commitments present themselves in delineations of black and white. You either honor your commitments or you don't. Success is the result of…

— Gary Ryan

Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the…

— Jack Handey

I wanted to make a massive work so as soon as Nick Mitzevich invited me I said yes straight away and began…

— Ben Quilty

I'd love to do a really cheap action movie. I'd love to do stunts. I mean, not myself. I'd hurt myself, but…

— Andrew Bujalski

Once I hit 25, I realized I had to do more than just be an actor. I love acting, but there's something…

— Fisher Stevens

I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the…

— Richard Armitage

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

— Anonymous

I eventually want to write and direct and produce my own stuff.

— Kelly Marie Tran

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

— Demetri Martin

Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

— Ogden Nash

It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.

— Debbie Allen

Use the mind to direct the chi and the chi to mobilise the body.

— Cheng Man-ch'ing

The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.

— Andrew Jackson

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

— Oprah Winfrey

“A consequence may be the very thing that saves us because it was the only thing loud enough to get our attention.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

In order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, it's essential to have a great deal of purity.

— Frederick Lenz

Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

— Katy Perry

Usually I don't like to act in movies that I direct because it's kind of confusing.

— Rob Reiner

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

— Steven Weinberg

Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver?

— Tim Allen

I would like to direct a sitcom like 'Sumit Sambhal Lega.' It was interesting. It had a great script also.

— Satish Kaushik

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

— Michelangelo Antonioni