Direct Quotes

1825 Direct quotes by 1446 unique authors

There is a direct correlation between am increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want. — Tim Ferriss
You have the sky overhead giving one light; then the reflected light from whatever reflects; then the direct light of the sun; so that, in… — Winslow Homer
Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal,… — David Milne
One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is ... the ability to direct one's whole… — Erwin Rommel
Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour,… — Herbert Read
Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way. — Mark Rothko
This is no time to let down our guard on youth violence. Research demonstrates that appropriate interventions made during or prior to adolescence can direct… — David Satcher
In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the… — Pope Benedict XVI
If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to… — Omar Bongo
But many researchers operate as if it is their responsibility to demonstrate that video violence has a direct effect on the behaviour of young children,… — Hugh Mackay
Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression that such an… — Walter J. Phillips
It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought to harmony and… — Piet Mondrian
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are. — Robert Genn
An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but… — Charles E. Burchfield
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart. — Sam Rayburn
There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can… — Erasmus Darwin
Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than what you are,… — Saint Francis de Sales
I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that… — Jim Thorpe
I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of… — Walt Disney
Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really… — Frederick Lenz
I think it is best to let the experience you have with a teacher direct itself, Instead of trying to make the experience into what… — Frederick Lenz
Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants,… — Stephen Covey
In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object. — Frederick Lenz

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