Direct Quotes · Page 30

If I was going to direct an episode of 'Younger', I wanted it to look like an episode of 'Younger.'

— Miriam Shor

One of my problems is that I'm very honest and direct. You pay a price for that.

— Amy Irving

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

— Eric Hoffer

Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.

— Hope Edelman

Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.

— Martin Walser

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

— Billy Corgan

I would not get to know every single thing that happens in Sports Direct.

— Mike Ashley

I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.

— Sarah Sutton

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure…

— Sun Tzu

I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't…

— Moby

The trouble with many copywriters in general agencies are that they don't really think in terms of selling. They have never written…

— David Ogilvy

“Your daily output is directly proportional to your daily thoughts while your activity or passivity remains as a constant. You get what…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me…

— Jimmy Buffett

People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the…

— Brother Lawrence

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a…

— Michel Gondry

My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is…

— Donald Byrd

The fact that there aren't an abundance of African-American males that are getting lead roles [and] that are getting roles that have…

— Michael B. Jordan

television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been…

— Elizabeth Janeway

Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand -…

— Ivan Chermayeff

Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world,…

— Carl Jung

What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why…

— Suzanne Fields

In one of the accounts of Jesus's death we read that the curtain in the temple of God-the one that kept people…

— Rob Bell

'This thing I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?' — this sort…

— David Foster Wallace

I also write stories and want to show these stories to the world; someday someone might want to direct them.

— Satyadev Kancharana

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

— Anonymous

We need to teach people that the environment has a direct bearing on our own benefit.

— Dalai Lama

Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

— Zig Ziglar

I wanted to direct a film that can showcase my son's acting prowess.

— Thambi Ramaiah

Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.

— Joseph Cornell

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Dhobi Ghat' is the only script I actually completed and that I was convinced about wanting to direct.

— Kiran Rao

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

— Henry Giroux

I don't even know how to Direct Message someone on Instagram. I still write letters.

— Margot Robbie

When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of

— Ed Harris

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Sports Direct is on course to become the 'Selfridges of sport' by migrating to a new generation of stores.

— Mike Ashley

Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

— Dick Gephardt

My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

— Ulysses S. Grant

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

— Harsha Bhogle