Direct Quotes

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When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the… — Jackie Chan
I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work. — Kyle Chandler
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts. — James Allen
Cyber bullies can hide behind a mask of anonymity online, and do not need direct physical access to their victims to do unimaginable harm. — Anna Maria Chavez
Direct threats require decisive action. — Dick Cheney
There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control. — Noam Chomsky
I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry,… — Kelly Clarkson
A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not… — Hillary Clinton
I certainly direct with confidence even if I'm not confident. I learned early on as an actor that confidence can be faked, and it's not… — George Clooney
Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead… — Dale Carnegie
A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants of the founding… — Bob Dole
An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny… — Ernst Haeckel
In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada decision (Chaoulli-Zeliotis), the Canadian Medicare system is about to be redesigned. Physicians must not just sit… — Brian Day
What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help. — Donald Keough
Persons drinking coffee, as a general rule, eat less, though coffee, and also tea, have little direct food value; but they retard the waste of… — Maria Parloa
Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we… — Chogyam Trungpa
It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it. — George H. W. Bush
female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them… — Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take… — Sun Tzu
Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to… — Sun Tzu

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