Direct Quotes

1825 quotes by 1446 authors

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or… — Sivananda
I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday. — Steven Spielberg
Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me. — Steven Spielberg
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what… — B.F. Skinner
I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play,… — Christian Slater
I always wanted to see if I could sell a movie to the public without doing any marketing because my philosophy was like, 'Hey man,… — Kevin Smith
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation. — Robert Smithson
Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall… — Aaron Sorkin
I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become… — Steven Spielberg
I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day… — Steven Spielberg
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. — Baruch Spinoza
The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have… — Lysander Spooner
God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we… — Charles Stanley
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions. — W. Clement Stone
If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long. — John Sununu
I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician. — Serj Tankian
Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing. — James Taylor
Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and… — Leonardo da Vinci
Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem… — George Washington

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