Directness Quotes

22 quotes by 22 authors

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. — John Dewey
In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret. — Susan Sontag
I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen… — Robert Rauschenberg
Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so is… — Peter Orner
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of… — Brander Matthews
For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things. — Christopher Ricks
The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment,… — Tennessee Williams
A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its… — Donna Jo Napoli
We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy… — Stephen Batchelor
Paul Otrembaâ€™s remarkable first book,Â The Currency,Â is an intriguing foray into lyricÂ epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with the implacable, paradox-ridden… — Michael Collier
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness. — Marshall McLuhan
There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey. — Ali Larter
Over the years, Iâ€™ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues.… — Jill Abramson
Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they… — Walter J. Phillips
Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
When I was with Yoav, everything in me that had been sitting stood up. He had a way of looking at me with a kind… — Nicole Krauss
I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery… — E. M. Forster
There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him; you show your… — Jodi Picoult
What do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing… — Kazuo Ishiguro
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller named… — Alice Morse Earle

Who Wrote These Directness Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 22 Directness Quotes as follows: