The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver? — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way. — Patrice Leconte Copy Share Image
The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other. — Abba Louisa Goold Woolson Copy Share Image
There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster,… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
I really don't like watching myself and for the most part I will never watch myself. I worked with Kevin Smith on… — Austin Butler Copy Share Image
I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition,… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free. — David Graeber Copy Share Image
In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In a huge way, everything that I've done in my life has helped inform my ability to communicate with actors and direct… — Steve Antin Copy Share Image
I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out,… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say there isn't a direct path to a successful career. There are people who knew exactly what they wanted to… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
Basically, I'm a writer. I'm the proprietor of the vision. I alone know what I eventually want to happen on the screen.… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
It's easy to direct while acting; there's one less person to argue with. — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort. — Hua Ching Ni Copy Share Image
