Directly Quotes
1259 Directly quotes by 1006 unique authors
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Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you…
— Steven Pinker
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to…
— Albert Einstein
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In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin…
— W S Merwin
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Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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When delivering something like an important letter or other written materials, grasp it firmly in your hand as you go and do not release it…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.
— Stephen Levine
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I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say - I love you
— William Shakespeare
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All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother's…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.
— James Mackintosh
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Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you…
— Michael Korda
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Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent…
— J. William Fulbright
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The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
— Jerry Pournelle
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Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.
— Rick Pitino
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As far as possible, you should pray in quiet and silent devotion. Try to have a favorite topic of prayer, such as a devotion to…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to our…
— Ray Kurzweil
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It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this…
— Jack Kornfield
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You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they…
— George Washington
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The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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I want to say to each of you, simply, and directly, I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior I engaged in.
— Tiger Woods
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There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face…
— Ajahn Chah
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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
— Bel Kaufman
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Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.
— Joan Rivers
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Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
— Maria Montessori
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These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in the fields and…
— Cesar Chavez
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