Straightforward Quotes

206 quotes by 197 authors

I believe in treating other people with respect. My style is to speak to people, be available to them and willing to answer their questions.… — Sanford I. Weill
Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't… — Laurence Overmire
Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained… — Dusa McDuff
The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop. — George Vaillant
I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not… — Dido Armstrong
Buffett's methodology was straightforward, and in that sense 'simple.' It was not simple in the sense of being easy to execute. Valuing companies such as… — Roger Lowenstein
Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it. — Kay Redfield Jamison
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others. — Xunzi
With breast cancer, nothing is straightforward. It makes sense for most people to make their dietary decisions based on what it does for heart disease.… — Walter Willett
Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich Hayek should make… — Philip E. Agre
This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had communication with for… — Mark Twain
Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain — Seneca the Younger
Fail your way forward. Recognize that Ready, fire, aim is superior to ready, aim, aim, aim. Straightforward trial and error produces better results than endless… — Steve Pavlina
It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that. — Edward Tufte
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story — Laura Hillenbrand
The whole race, which is now called Gallic or Galatic,is madly fond of war,high-spirited and quick to battle,but otherwise straightforward and not of evil character.For… — Strabo
Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line. — Alice McCall
Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely… — Peter Greenaway
Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness. — John Armstrong
The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff. — Paul Thomas Anderson

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