Directed Quotes
671 quotes by 580 authors
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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
— Ferdinand de Saussure
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In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility…
— Hector Berlioz
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It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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There is a question whether faith can or is supposed to be emotionally satisfying. I must say that the thought of everyone lolling about in…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels…
— Pope Pius XII
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The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it…
— Ralph Linton
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Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a…
— Daniel Nathans
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The time and thought which most persons waste in aimless effort would accomplish wonders if properly directed with some special object in view. In order…
— Charles F. Haanel
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A single collective directed thought is all it takes to change the world.
— Lynne McTaggart
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The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia.…
— Henry A. Wallace
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It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Managing the power of choice, with all its creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience. All spiritual teachings are directed toward…
— Caroline Myss
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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The…
— Federico Fellini
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One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women…
— Jane Campion
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The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.
— Klemens von Metternich
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Spend the most time with your best people. ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the…
— Marcus Buckingham
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If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender,…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
— Harold Ramis
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I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.
— Elizabeth Moon
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