Direct Quotes

1825 Direct quotes by 1446 unique authors

Allow the emptiness inherent within actions and experiences to guide and shape your choices. Let your actions direct you, the actor, not the other way… — Frederick Lenz
Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you. — Frederick Lenz
Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your concentration. Winning is… — Frederick Lenz
Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover… — Laini Taylor
When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories. — Jared Leto
I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting. — Sarah Sutton
I'm currently trying to direct my own material. — Tom Skerritt
Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of… — Lea Thompson
When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing. — Gaspard Ulliel
Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers. — R. James Woolsey, Jr.
I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and… — Kerry Washington
If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct… — Minoru Yamasaki
People have got to get used to making low carbon choices. If they have a direct incentive to do so they will think about it.… — Tim Yeo
We don't live forever. We have a limited energy. You have to determine those things that you direct your energy towards, otherwise you get yourself… — Frederick Lenz
We have the possibility of being far removed from what we are, of beginning to taste it and feel it. That is direct knowledge. That… — Frederick Lenz
Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power. — Frederick Lenz
Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what… — Maximus the Confessor
Haitian diplomacy will be oriented toward the influx of foreign capital, direct investments that create jobs and stimulate economic growth. — Laurent Lamothe
I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have… — Joe Mantello
Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on. — Christian Marclay
I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me. — Ezra Miller
I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much… — Richard K. Morgan
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not. — Edwin Newman
An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have… — Paul Davies
Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate… — Donald Curtis

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