Quotes About Straightforwardness

I'm a very direct person just generally. I don't use a lot of words unnecessarily. I try to get to the heart of the issue, address it and go on to the next thing.

The Master said, 'Respectfulness, without the rules of propriety, becomes laborious bustle; carefulness, without the rules of propriety, becomes timidity; boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination; straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?

I've experienced, in general, in New York, people cut to the chase a little more, and they're a little bit more straightforward. In L.A. I've experienced more wishy-washiness. I will say, though, that the people that are actually from L.A. - like, born and raised in L.A. - are the real nice and genuine people.

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady," he remarked on suitable occasion. "Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady, he remarked on suitable occasion. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady," he remarked on suitable occasion. "Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candour with courtesy is helpful and admirable.

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady," he remarked on a suitable occasion. "Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candour with courtesy is helpful and admirable.

I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.

Yash has always been straight forward in his approach and is very open and candid in his opinions. I guess this is why most people approach him for advice.

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

You can call me when you're done being selfish and are ready be straight up.

If you are serious about your work, honest and straight-forward, you are labelled eccentric.

I'm not rude. I'm just honest. Not my problem if you can't handle the truth.

In reality we always discover afterwards that our adversaries had a reason for being on the side they espoused, which has nothing to do with any element of right that there may be on that side, and that those who think as we do do so because their intelligence, if their moral nature is too base to be invoked, or their straightforwardness, if their penetration is feeble, has compelled them.

NONE OF THIS NONSENSE, PLEASE