Quotes About Directness

I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.

Working with Gautham Menon is like working with a friend. He says the scene once and I do it once and he okays it. He is very quick.

Precision, directness, and quickness are what human beings are good at. What we have never been good at - in our past, at least - is figuring out the impact, the consequences, of what our skills have allowed us to do.

I think the older you get, the more 'let's cut to the chase' you get, 'let's quit quibbling about this, let's tell it like it is.'

I speak plainly, I don't beat around the bush, and I'm just genuine.

I can be brutally honest, which can be hard on others, but I'm a good friend.

Laura n'a jamais dissimulé ni différé le moindre de ses sentiments. Si Laura aime quelqu'un, elle l'embrasse, si Laura boit, elle est ivre, et elle le dit, si elle s'emmerde, elle quitte la table au milieu du repas, en disant qu'elle s'emmerde, et si elle veut tuer quelqu'un, elle le tue. Et elle le tue elle-même, et elle dit pourquoi!

Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.

I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.

I'm someone who says what he thinks.

I don't like to say things that I wouldn't want to say to someone's face. Those are my morals for life.

I'm not the kind of person who come here to say what you like. I'm going to tell you the truth whether you like it or not.

How rotten and spurious is the man who says: "I have decided to be straightforward with you.

Straight, not straightened.

I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

That's harsh.

Ask her her opinion of anything, and instead of judging what is appropriate to say, she will tell you what she really thinks.

someone who doesn't say please or thank you or smile when you'd expect him to and thinks 'How are you?' means 'How are you?' and stands too close to people when he talks and never tells them, 'I think maybe perhaps such-and-such,' but always, flat-out, 'You are wrong,' and 'This is bad,' and 'She is stupid'; no shades of gray, all black and white and 'What I say goes.'

I don't do vague. If I want to call you a coward, I will bock at you in no uncertain terms.

This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.

This hitteth the nail on the head.

Merkel is the opposite of ostentatious. She has kept her small cottage near her home town of Templin, goes to her customary hairdresser in Berlin and from time to time is seen grocery shopping. She devours art. She sometimes phones her one or two favourite museum directors directly to ask them if they wouldn't mind staying open a little longer so that she can see a particular exhibition without any fuss.

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.