Direct Quotes

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You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but… — Peter J. Daniels
The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong. — Harry Segall
Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it. — J. Ogden Armour
It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they… — Robert B. Laughlin
Use the mind to direct the chi and the chi to mobilise the body. — Cheng Man-ch'ing
The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You don't crave another… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche
More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something,… — Phyllis Rose
Love yourself and realize that whatever you attempt to achieve in Life is a direct reflection of you.... — Joe Greene
Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting. — Ernst Mach
It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding… — Roger Penrose
I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made… — Roger Penrose
Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it's unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps especially when it's… — Beverly L. Kaye
Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break;… — Arthur Levitt Jr
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct… — John Woolman
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of… — Seneca the Younger
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path. — Florence Griffith Joyner
It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple... To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and… — Addison Mizner
I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can. If acting doesn't work out I'd love to produce,… — Chloe Grace Moretz
The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of… — Gene Spafford
Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet… — R. Buckminster Fuller

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