Quotes About Directness

Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.

I have a direct way of speaking. What I do is tend to lay out everything; I tend to tell people what I'm going to do and how I'm going to do it and what is success for us and what's not... without being too parochial about it, I think Aussies are more direct.

I'm sort of a straight shooter.

I am a straight shooter.

I've never understood this idea of not shooting straight with people.

I have a tough time beating around the bush and just saying something you want to hear. I kind of say it how it is, even if I don't realize that's maybe not what I should say at the moment.

I'm being honest, I say what I think.

I should perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform you, and not to amuse you.

He intentado, no se con que fortuna, la redacción de cuentos directos. No me atrevo a afirmar que son sencillos; no hay en la tierra, una sola página, una sola palabra, que lo sea, ya que todas postulan el universo, cuyo más notorio atributo es la complejidad.

What Americans value and strive for is straight talking, plain saying. They don't go in for ambiguity or dissembling, the etiquette of hidden meaning, the skill of the socially polite lie.

What is plain should be said plainly.

For every complicated problem there is a solution that is simple, direct, understandable, and wrong." H. L. Mencken

I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.

It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.

I am the last person on Earth who can be diplomatic. I say what I actually feel.

My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

When you walk into my classroom, I'm going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that's the only way to prepare you for the real world.

I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.

I'm too blunt, too matter-of-fact and not PC enough.

Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are.

I am very blunt, and people don't like it.

People beat around the bush so much, and I try to be really blunt in my music.

I'm a very blunt person.